Abstract: Relational similarity measuring embodiments are presented that generally involve creating a relational similarity model that, given two pairs of words, is used to measure a degree of relational similarity between the two relations respectively exhibited by these word pairs. In one exemplary embodiment this involves creating a combined relational similarity model from a plurality of relational similarity models. This is generally accomplished by first selecting a plurality of relational similarity models, each of which measures relational similarity between two pairs of words, and each of which is trained or created using a different method or linguistic/textual resource. The selected models are then combined to form the combined relational similarity model. The combined model inputs two pairs of words and outputs a relational similarity indicator representing a measure the degree of relational similarity between the word pairs.