Some words, such as telephone and communication might even be rated as related because they belong to the same semantic field.
they proposed to split the WORDSIM353 dataset into two subsets: the first one comprising words that are similar, i.e., synonyms, antonyms and hyperonym-hyponym and the second cohyp hyper mero attri event randn randj randv 2 1 0 1 2 3 cohyp hyper mero attri event randn randj randv Figure 3: Similarity score distributions for various semantic relations on the BLESS dataset, without using the transition matrix (left) and with using the transition matrix (right) for comparing adjectives and verbs with nouns.