edu.ucla.sspace.evaluation

Class FinkelsteinEtAl353WordSimilarityEvaluation

java.lang.Object

edu.ucla.sspace.evaluation.FinkelsteinEtAl353WordSimilarityEvaluation

All Implemented Interfaces:

WordSimilarityEvaluation

public class FinkelsteinEtAl353WordSimilarityEvaluation
extends Object
implements WordSimilarityEvaluation

A collection of human similarity judgements of word pairs gathered by Finkelstein et al. See their website for access to the test data. See the following reference for full details on how the data was gathered.

• Lev Finkelstein, Evgeniy Gabrilovich, Yossi Matias, Ehud Rivlin, Zach Solan, Gadi Wolfman, and Eytan Ruppin, "Placing Search in Context: The Concept Revisited", ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 20(1):116-131, January 2002. Available here.

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
FinkelsteinEtAl353WordSimilarityEvaluation(File word353file) Constructs this word similarity evaluation test using the provide WS353 data file.
FinkelsteinEtAl353WordSimilarityEvaluation(String word353fileName) Constructs this word similarity evaluation test using the WS353 data file refered to by the provided name.

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
double	getLeastSimilarValue() Returns the numeric similarity judgement that is equivalent to two words being completely dissimilar (i.e.
double	getMostSimilarValue() Returns the numeric similarity judgement that is equivalent to two words being completely similar (i.e.
Collection<WordSimilarity>	getPairs() Returns a collection of human similarity judgements for word pairs.
String	toString()

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

FinkelsteinEtAl353WordSimilarityEvaluation

public FinkelsteinEtAl353WordSimilarityEvaluation(String word353fileName)

Constructs this word similarity evaluation test using the WS353 data file refered to by the provided name.

FinkelsteinEtAl353WordSimilarityEvaluation

public FinkelsteinEtAl353WordSimilarityEvaluation(File word353file)

Constructs this word similarity evaluation test using the provide WS353 data file.

Method Detail

getPairs

public Collection<WordSimilarity> getPairs()

Returns a collection of human similarity judgements for word pairs.

Specified by:

getPairs in interface WordSimilarityEvaluation

getMostSimilarValue

public double getMostSimilarValue()

Returns the numeric similarity judgement that is equivalent to two words being completely similar (i.e. identical).

Specified by:

getMostSimilarValue in interface WordSimilarityEvaluation

getLeastSimilarValue

public double getLeastSimilarValue()

Returns the numeric similarity judgement that is equivalent to two words being completely dissimilar (i.e. identical).

Specified by:

getLeastSimilarValue in interface WordSimilarityEvaluation

toString

public String toString()

Overrides:

toString in class Object