semantic similarity
collocation in Englishmeaningsofsemanticandsimilarity
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semantic
adjective
uk/sɪˈmæn.tɪk/us/səˈmæn.t̬ɪk/
connected with the meanings ...
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similarity
noun[C or U]
uk/ˌsɪm.ɪˈlær.ə.ti/us/ˌsɪm.əˈler.ə.t̬i/
the fact that people or things look or are ...
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(Definition ofsemanticandsimilarityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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These results indicate that simplified texts exhibited moresemanticsimilaritywithin sentences and within paragraphs than did authentic texts.
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Participants were advised to study each pair and to rate it forsemanticsimilarityor dissimilarity using one of the 5-point rating formats.
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Bilingual judges verified thesemanticsimilaritybetween the backtranslated items and the original items in the questionnaire.
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English-speaking judges verified thesemanticsimilaritybetween the backtranslated items and the original items in the questionnaire.
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Under the alternative hypothesis, syntactic facilitation will be independent of the degree ofsemanticsimilarityamong the items.
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Clearly, empirically anchored rating methods for elicitingsemanticsimilarityand dissimilarity deserve further consideration.
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The same adjectives repeatedly occurring before two different terms can be used as some sort measure of the two terms'semanticsimilarity.
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The substitutability of contexts was indirectly related to semantic dissimilarity or, alternatively, the substitutability of contexts andsemanticsimilarityvaried directly.
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Semanticsimilarityand dissimilarity constitute a special type of similarity.
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The two groups of participants ratedsemanticsimilarityand dissimilarity for sets of 30 and 65 paired synonyms.
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Using information content to evaluatesemanticsimilarityin taxonomy.
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She argues that as the child hears, and begins to store in memory, specific words, networks of phonological andsemanticsimilarityare developed.
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Testing the role ofsemanticsimilarityin syntactic development.
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Moreover, it uses a comparison of question types in a taxonomy derived from the query, and asemanticsimilarityscore in question matching.
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Half were asked to rate the phonological similarity of each pair; the other half were asked to rate thesemanticsimilarity.
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The acceptance ofsemanticsimilarityand dissimilarity is so ubiquitous that few theorists even bother to cite precedents.
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Here, both groups appeared more likely to false alarm to semantically related pairs when the degree ofsemanticsimilaritywas relatively high.
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Typically, rating tests for elicitingsemanticsimilarityand dissimilarity are anchored by linguistic statements that are arbitrarily chosen by the experimenters.
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