On the other hand, corpus-based distributional measures of semantic distance, such as cosine and α-skew divergence (Dagan et al., 1999), rely on raw text alone (Weeds et al., 2004;Mohammad, 2008).
when used to rank word pairs in order of semantic distance or correct real-word spelling errors, they have been shown to perform poorly (Weeds et al., 2004;Mohammad and Hirst, 2006).