Because the sense inventory for the Senseval data comes from WordNet and we work at the sense level, we use relatedness measures based on WordNet, as opposed to corpus-based ones.
in the experiments presented further in the paper, we have used a relatedness measure based on hypernym and hyponym information, in the following manner: if the sense s i w 2 of w 2 is a hypernym of the sense s j wx or a close hyponym (distance at most 2) or connected through a similar to/antonym of relation, we consider the two senses related and relatedness gets a score of 1.