edu.illinois.cs.cogcomp.sim

Class WordSim

java.lang.Object

edu.illinois.cs.cogcomp.sim.WordSim

All Implemented Interfaces:

Metric<String>

public class WordSim
extends Object
implements Metric<String>

Word Similarity Metrics including word2vec, Paragram, WordNet, Glove, ESA. You need specify the file path in Config file for the metrics you want to use. The class loads all or one of metrics above from file and compare function is used to compare two words and return similarity score

Author:

shaoshi

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
WordSim(ResourceManager rm_, String method) Initialize specific word metrics instance

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
MetricResponse	compare(String arg1, String arg2) Intended to calculate similarity between two things -- generally, elements from text.
MetricResponse	compare(String small, String big, String method) similarity comparison method
File	getFile(String method)

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

WordSim

public WordSim(ResourceManager rm_,
               String method)

Initialize specific word metrics instance

Parameters:

rm_ -

method - is the word comparison metric

Method Detail

compare

public MetricResponse compare(String arg1,
                              String arg2)
                       throws IllegalArgumentException

Description copied from interface: Metric

Intended to calculate similarity between two things -- generally, elements from text.

Specified by:

compare in interface Metric<String>

Parameters:

arg1 - 1st component

arg2 - 2nd component

Returns:

similarity score

Throws:

IllegalArgumentException

compare

public MetricResponse compare(String small,
                              String big,
                              String method)

similarity comparison method

Parameters:

small - word1

big - word2

method - word metrics method

Returns:

getFile

public File getFile(String method)