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+From the README:
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+This package consists of Perl modules along with supporting Perl programs that
+implement the semantic relatedness measures described by Leacock Chodorow
+(1998), Jiang Conrath (1997), Resnik (1995), Lin (1998), Hirst St Onge (1998)
+and the adapted gloss overlap measure by Banerjee and Pedersen (2002). The Perl
+modules are designed as object classes with methods that take as input two word
+senses. The semantic relatedness of these word senses is returned by these
+methods. A quantitative measure of the degree to which two word senses are
+related has wide ranging applications in numerous areas, such as word sense
+disambiguation, information retrieval, etc. For example, in order to determine
+which sense of a given word is being used in a particular context, the sense
+having the highest relatedness with its context word senses is most likely to
+be the sense being used. Similarly, in information retrieval, retrieving
+documents containing highly related concepts are more likely to have higher
+precision and recall values.
+
+A command line interface to these modules is also present in the package. The
+simple, user-friendly interface returns the relatedness measure of two given
+words. A number of switches and options have been provided to modify the output
+and enhance it with trace information and other useful output. Details of the
+usage are provided in other sections of this README. Supporting utilities for
+generating information content files from various corpora are also available in
+the package. The information content files are required by three of the
+measures for computing the relatedness of concepts.
+
+WWW: http://search.cpan.org/dist/WordNet-Similarity/