New ask Hacker News story: Similarity or Difference of Meaning Between Words

Similarity or Difference of Meaning Between Words
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Say you have two random words ('yellow' and 'ambient' or 'goose' and 'kettle'). What tech could be used to rate how similar or different they are in meaning as informed by popular usage? For example, from 0 to 1 where antonyms are 0 and synonyms are 1, 'yellow' and 'ambient' might be 0.65 similar.