edu.ucla.sspace.evaluation

Class RubensteinGoodenoughWordSimilarityEvaluation

java.lang.Object

edu.ucla.sspace.evaluation.RubensteinGoodenoughWordSimilarityEvaluation

All Implemented Interfaces:

WordSimilarityEvaluation

public class RubensteinGoodenoughWordSimilarityEvaluation
extends Object
implements WordSimilarityEvaluation

A collection of human similarity judgements of word pairs gathered by Rubenstein and Goodneough. See the following paper for full details.

• Rubenstein, H. and Goodenough, J. B. Contextual Correlates of Synonymy Communications of the ACM, 1965, 8, 627-633

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
RubensteinGoodenoughWordSimilarityEvaluation(File rbSimFile) Constructs this word similarity evaluation test using the provide WS353 data file.
RubensteinGoodenoughWordSimilarityEvaluation(String rbSimFileName) 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

RubensteinGoodenoughWordSimilarityEvaluation

public RubensteinGoodenoughWordSimilarityEvaluation(String rbSimFileName)

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

RubensteinGoodenoughWordSimilarityEvaluation

public RubensteinGoodenoughWordSimilarityEvaluation(File rbSimFile)

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