Semantic Similarity Score

A Semantic Similarity Score is a similarity score that takes into account semantic context.

• Context:
  • It can (typically) be produced by a Semantic Similarity Function.
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• Example(s):
  • a Text-Item Semantic Similarity Score, such as: a semantic word similarity rating scale,
  • a Gene Semantic Similarity Score,
  • a Semantic Relationship Score,
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• Counter-Example(s):
  • Semantic Similarity Measure,
  • Protein Proximity Score,
  • Employee Performance Score,
  • Confidence Score Value,
  • PMI Score,
  • TF-IDF Score,
  • Z-Score.

See: Scoring Function, Similarity Distance, Likert Scale, Word Relatedness Measure, Benchmark Performance Metric.

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References

2017

• (Camacho-Collados et al., 2017) ⇒ Jose Camacho-Collados, Mohammad Taher Pilehvar, Nigel Collier, and Roberto Navigli. (2017). “SemEval-2017 Task 2: Multilingual and Cross-lingual Semantic Word Similarity.” In: Proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval@ACL 2017).

2011

• (Jiang et al., 2011) ⇒ Rui Jiang, Mingxin Gan, and Peng He (2011). "Constructing a Gene Semantic Similarity Network for the Inference of Disease Genes". In: BMC Systems Biology, 5(S-2). DOI:10.1186/1752-0509-5-S2-S2.
  • QUOTE: We use the length of the shortest path between two proteins in the HPRD network to measure their proximity, and we draw box plots to demonstrate the relationship between gene semantic similarity scores and protein network proximity scores in Figure 2.

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