It is defined on different kinds of textual units , e.g. documents , parts of a document ( e.g. words and their surrounding context ) , words or concepts ( Lebart and Rajman , 2000 ) .2 Linguistic distance between words is inverse to their semantic similarity or relatedness .
computing similarity
Ludovic Lebart Martin Rajman
Linguistic distance plays an important role in many applications like information retrieval , word sense disambiguation , text summarization or spelling correction . It is defined on different kinds of textual units , e.g. documents , parts of a document ( e.g. words and their surrounding context ) , words or concepts ( Lebart and Rajman , 2000 ) .2 Linguistic distance between words is inverse to their semantic similarity or relatedness . Semantic similarity is typically defined via the lexical relations of synonymy ( automobile -- car ) and hypernymy ( vehicle -- car ) , while semantic relatedness ( SR ) is defined to cover any kind of lexical or functional association that may exist be -
It is defined on different kinds of textual units , e.g. documents , parts of a document ( e.g. words and their surrounding context ) , words or concepts ( @@CITATION ) .2 Linguistic distance between words is inverse to their semantic similarity or relatedness .