NLP: any easy and good methods to find semantic similarity between words?

Question

I don\'t know whether StackOverflow covers NLP, so I am gonna give this a shot. I am interested to find the semantic relatedness of two words from a specific domain, i.e. \"imag

Answer 1

Re your comment:

1. Classifiation through machine learning is being used for NLP all the time.
2. Regarding semantic similarity between concepts, see Dekang Lin's information theoretic definition of similarity.

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