Semantic relatedness and semantic similarity play a vital role in information retrieval of words in natural language processing applications. The multilingual nature of South Africa affords people a superficial (as opposed to an expert) knowledge of many languages, resulting in them finding it difficult to distinguish between semantic relatedness and semantic similarity. Computing semantic relatedness and semantic similarity using African Wordnet could help in developing a proper understanding of the meaning of certain words in the various languages. This article explores how African Wordnet can be used to identify semantic relatedness and semantic similarity. The focus of this article will be on isiZulu as one of the selected languages used in the African Wordnet Project. The purpose of the African Wordnet Project is the development of aligned wordnets for African languages spoken in South Africa. This article further discusses and analyses the examples of semantic relatedness and semantic similarity in the chosen language with a view to giving accounts of the two terms by providing examples and the usages of the words.

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非洲Wordnet作为识别语义相关性和语义相似性的工具

语义相关性和语义相似性在自然语言处理应用程序中的单词信息检索中起着至关重要的作用。南非的多语种性质为人们提供了多种语言的肤浅知识（相对于专家而言），这使他们发现很难区分语义相关性和语义相似性。使用非洲Wordnet计算语义相关性和语义相似性可以帮助发展对各种语言中某些单词的含义的正确理解。本文探讨如何使用非洲Wordnet来识别语义相关性和语义相似性。本文的重点将放在isiZulu作为非洲Wordnet项目中使用的选定语言之一。非洲词网项目的目的是为南非使用的非洲语言开发对齐的词网。本文进一步讨论和分析所选语言中的语义相关性和语义相似性的示例，以期通过提供示例和单词用法来说明这两个术语。