The application of artificial intelligence in the field of English needs to process a large amount of English text data, but the deviation of English word similarity reduces its overall English translation accuracy and data processing efficiency. Therefore, this paper proposes an accurate estimation of English word similarity based on semantic network, which combines a variety of computing methods to form a compound computing structure based on semantic network. The experimental results show that the error between the Semantic Web-based English word similarity calculation method and manual evaluation is small, and the accuracy of English word similarity calculation is improved to a certain extent. In addition, compared with other English word similarity calculation methods, the English word similarity calculation method based on semantic network is more in line with people’s cognition and understanding of knowledge, has higher reliability, and has certain practical value in the field of English.