We introduce a novel approach to measuring semantic relatedness of terms based on an automatically generated, large-scale semantic network. We present promising first results that indicate potential competitiveness with approaches based on manually created resources.

The PPDB is an automatically built database which contains millions of paraphrases in different languages. Paraphrases in this resource are associated with features that serve to their ranking and reflect paraphrase quality. This context-unaware ranking captures the semantic similarity of paraphrases but cannot serve to estimate their adequacy in specific contexts. We propose to use vector-spac...

The paper is focused on classes of lexical units which arise as a result of derivational processes – word formation and semantic transfers, acting either in isolation or together, on the basis of common semantic foundations that bind targets and sources of derivation. The lexical items which constitute the classes under study vary in their denotative characteristics and due to their categ...