Research data supporting "SimVerb-3500: A Large-Scale Evaluation Set of Verb Similarity"

SimVerb-3500 is a gold standard evaluation resource for semantic similarity of verbs.

We provide 3500 verb pairs with ratings on a scale 0-10. Here are some examples:
to reply / to respond - 9.79;
to participate / to join - 5.64;
to stay / to leave - 0.17;

SimVerb-3500 covers all normed verb types from the USF free-association database, and provides at least three examples for every VerbNet class.

Please refer to the publication or the following website for more information: http://people.ds.cam.ac.uk/dsg40/simverb.html