Table 1 compares the proposed method against Miller-Charles ratings (MC), and previously proposed web-based semantic similarity measures: Jaccard, Dice, Overlap, PMI (Bollegala et al., 2007), Normalized Google Distance (NGD) (Cilibrasi and Vitanyi, 2007), Sahami and Heilman (SH) (2006), co-occurrence double checking model (CODC) (Chen et al., 2006), and support vector machine-based (SVM) approach (Bollegala et al., 2007).
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