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Satanjeev Banerjee, Ted Pedersen: Extended Gloss Overlaps as a Measure of Semantic Relatedness. IJCAI 2003: 805-810
(IJCAI-03, Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Acapulco, Mexico, August 9-15, 2003 )

word senses that are related to each other are often defined using some shared words
gloss (the explanation of the sense with possibly specific examples);
hypernymy (is-a relation);
meronymy (has-a relation)