Semantic similarity, also called semantic relatedness or semantic closeness/proximity/nearness, is a concept whereby a set of documents or terms within term lists are assigned a metric based on the likeness of their meaning / semantic content.
Sample blog post: Valdis Krebs, June Holly, and Jack Rizziuto have launched a web site for their collaborative, Networkweaving, from which they also blog. (Great picture, guys!) Their work truly is collaborative and they are finding resonance in their wor
T. Zesch, I. Gurevych, and M. Mühlhäuser. Proceedings of Human Language Technologies: The Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL-HLT), (2007)