semantic distance

collocation in English

meaningsofsemanticanddistance

These words are often used together. Click on the links below to explore the meanings. Or,see other collocations withdistance.
semantic
adjective
uk
/sɪˈmæn.tɪk/us
/səˈmæn.t̬ɪk/
connected with the meanings ...
See more atsemantic
distance
noun
uk
/ˈdɪs.təns/us
/ˈdɪs.təns/
the amount of space between ...
See more atdistance

(Definition ofsemanticanddistancefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofsemantic distance

These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
The measurement ofsemanticdistancecan be based on the semantic relationship between words.
From theCambridge English Corpus
In this section we partly evaluate this hypothesis by assessing the correlation between the degree of usefulness of the distractors and theirsemanticdistanceto the correct answer.
From theCambridge English Corpus
The core idea of this step is to compute enrichment rules that do not contradict thesemanticdistance information already given by the ontology to be enriched.
From theCambridge English Corpus
New words, related to the descriptors of each concept, are extracted based on asemanticdistancefunction.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Ranking is performed according tosemanticdistancebetween key word and index word.
From theCambridge English Corpus
This measure has been shown to correlate with monolingual sense distance, and thus may be effective as the basis of asemanticdistanceor cost matrix for sense disambiguation evaluation.
From theCambridge English Corpus
However, much of the literature uses these terms interchangeably, along with terms likesemanticdistance.
From
Wikipedia
This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.
These studies generally make use of multiple fluency lists in order to make estimates of thesemanticdistancebetween pairs of concepts.
From
Wikipedia
This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.
One approach to (semi-) automated ontology mapping requires the definition of asemanticdistanceor its inverse, semantic similarity and appropriate rules.
From
Wikipedia
This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.
The complexity of the instruments needed to interpret and visualize the digital document determines thesemanticdistancebetween its bit sting representation and its semantic interpretation.
From
Wikipedia
This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
Want to learn more?
Go to the definition ofsemantic
Go to the definition ofdistance
See other collocations withdistance