[topicmapmail] Fwd: CPAN release of WordNet::Similarity

[Guy Murphy]

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> I'm curious. How does one define "semantic distance", given that
> any metric is pretty arbitrary? Is this just a node count between
> two words based on whatever existing structure is there in the
> thesaurus?
[snip]

Semantics are completely arbitrary to begin with simply representing a
consensus with regard to meaning, so there's no problem with semantic
distance being arbitrary as long as people find it useful.

Honestly, I'm not trying to be cute.

If you're interesting in semantic distance would you not perhaps find more
fruit looking at spatial indexing?

Cheers,
    Guy.