gov.llnl.ontology.wordnet.sim
Class ResnickSimilarity

java.lang.Object
  gov.llnl.ontology.wordnet.sim.ResnickSimilarity

All Implemented Interfaces:

SynsetSimilarity

public class ResnickSimilarity
extends Object
implements SynsetSimilarity

Implements the Resnick similarity. This measure scores Synsets with the information content of their lowest common subsumer.

Author:

Keith Stevens

Constructor Summary

ResnickSimilarity(InformationContent ic)
Constructs a new ResnickSimilarity.

Method Summary

double

similarity(Synset synset1, Synset synset2) Returns the similarity between synset1 and synset2 based on how they are connected in the word net hierarchy.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

ResnickSimilarity

public ResnickSimilarity(InformationContent ic)

Constructs a new ResnickSimilarity.

Method Detail

similarity

public double similarity(Synset synset1,
                         Synset synset2)

Returns the similarity between synset1 and synset2 based on how they are connected in the word net hierarchy.

Specified by:

similarity in interface SynsetSimilarity