Budanitsky and Hirst ( 2006 ) pointed out that distribution plots of judgments for the word pairs used by Rubenstein and Goodenough display an empty horizontal band that could be used to separate related and unrelated pairs .
evaluating wordnetbased measures of semantic distance
Alexander Budanitsky Graeme Hirst
However , even with the present setup , automatic extraction of concept pairs performs remarkably well and can be used to quickly create balanced test datasets . Budanitsky and Hirst ( 2006 ) pointed out that distribution plots of judgments for the word pairs used by Rubenstein and Goodenough display an empty horizontal band that could be used to separate related and unrelated pairs . This empty band is not observed here .
@@CITATION pointed out that distribution plots of judgments for the word pairs used by Rubenstein and Goodenough display an empty horizontal band that could be used to separate related and unrelated pairs .