Calculating the similarity between words and sentences using a lexical database and corpus statistics
TABLE III: Synsets and corresponding shortest path distances from WordNet
['Synset Pair', 'Shortest Path Distance']
When comparing two sentences, we have many such word pairs which have multiple synsets. Therefore, not considering the proper synset in context of the sentence, could introduce errors at the early stage of similarity calculation. Hence, sense of the word affects significantly on the overall similarity measure. Identifying sense of the word is part of the ‘word sense disambiguation’ research area. We use ‘max similarity’ algorithm, Eq. argmaxsynset(a)(n∑imaxsynset(i)(sim(i,a)) (1)