10.6084/m9.figshare.5649382.v1 Jorge Martinez Jorge Martinez Smart Combination of Web Measures for Solving Semantic Similarity Problems figshare 2017 semantic similarity web search search engines optimization Web Technologies (excl. Web Search) Social and Community Informatics Pattern Recognition and Data Mining Natural Language Processing Information Systems Information Retrieval and Web Search 2017-11-30 11:30:39 Journal contribution https://figshare.com/articles/journal_contribution/Smart_Combination_of_Web_Measures_for_Solving_Semantic_Similarity_Problems/5649382 This paper presents two main contributions. The authors propose a novel technique that beats classic probabilistic techniques for measuring semantic similarity between terms. This new technique consists of using not only a search engine for computing web page counts, but a smart combination of several popular web search engines. The approach is evaluated on the Miller and Charles and Gracia and Mena benchmark datasets and compared with existing probabilistic web extraction techniques.