edu.ucla.sspace.evaluation

Class WordSimilarityEvaluationRunner

java.lang.Object

edu.ucla.sspace.evaluation.WordSimilarityEvaluationRunner

public class WordSimilarityEvaluationRunner
extends Object

A test-runner for evaluating the performance of a SemanticSpace on a WordSimilarityEvaluation test.

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
WordSimilarityEvaluationRunner()

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
static WordSimilarityReport	evaluate(SemanticSpace sspace, WordSimilarityEvaluation test, Similarity.SimType vectorComparisonType) Evaluates the performance of a given SemanticSpace on a given WordSimilarityEvaluation using the provided similarity metric.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

WordSimilarityEvaluationRunner

public WordSimilarityEvaluationRunner()

Method Detail

evaluate

public static WordSimilarityReport evaluate(SemanticSpace sspace,
                            WordSimilarityEvaluation test,
                            Similarity.SimType vectorComparisonType)

Evaluates the performance of a given SemanticSpace on a given WordSimilarityEvaluation using the provided similarity metric. Returns a WordSimilarityReport detailing the performance, with similarity scores scaled by the lowest and highest human based similarity ratings.

Parameters:

sspace - The SemanticSpace to test against

test - The WordSimilarityEvaluation providing human similarity scores

vectorComparisonType - The similarity measture to use

Returns:

A WordSimilarityReport detailing the performance