edu.ucla.sspace.evaluation

Interface WordSimilarityEvaluation

All Known Implementing Classes:

FinkelsteinEtAl353WordSimilarityEvaluation, RubensteinGoodenoughWordSimilarityEvaluation

public interface WordSimilarityEvaluation

An evaluation metric that compares the human-judged similarity of word pairs against the similarity judgements from a SemanticSpace.

Author:

David Jurgens

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.

Method Detail

getPairs

Collection<WordSimilarity> getPairs()

Returns a collection of human similarity judgements for word pairs.

getMostSimilarValue

double getMostSimilarValue()

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

getLeastSimilarValue

double getLeastSimilarValue()

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