For example, (Bollegala, Matsuo, & Ishizuka, 2009), (Nakov & Hearst, 2008), or (Turney, 2008) approach this challenge by using pattern-based Web search and subsequent analysis of the resulting snippets.
to these approaches, we do not focus on word pair similarity, but given one entity, we aim at finding other entities which are seen as analogous in a specific domain (in our case analogies between locations and places).