semantic-similarity-restricted-to-hypernymic-relations

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Semantic similarity measures only 'is-a' (hypernymic) relations between terms, whereas semantic relatedness is broader and includes antonymy, meronymy, and any associative link.

Summary

The system should only treat two terms as interchangeable when one is a subtype of the other, not when they merely oppose each other, relate as part to whole, or share some loose association. This keeps reasoning about term equivalence tight and prevents false inferences from treating loosely connected words as substitutes.