A distributional measure of concept-distance can be used to populate a small 812 ¢ 812 concept-concept distance matrix where a cell m i j , pertaining to concepts c i and c j , contains the distance between the two concepts.
a word-word distance matrix for a conservative vocabulary of 100,000 word types will have a size 100,000 ¢ 100,000, and a WordNet-based concept-concept distance matrix will have a size 75,000 ¢ 75,000 just for nouns.