similarity measure
collocation in Englishmeaningsofsimilarityandmeasure
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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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measure
noun
uk/ˈmeʒ.ər/us/ˈmeʒ.ɚ/
a way of achieving something, or a method for dealing with ...
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Incorporating more information in the node attributes will also obtain a more meaningfulsimilaritymeasure.
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In this experiment, we also measured the effect on performance of a gradual relaxation of thesimilaritymeasure.
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They used a wavelet approach that is scale-independent and therefore constrained theirsimilaritymeasureto consider only object rotations.
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Thesimilaritymeasureof -skew divergence was also tried.
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Asimilaritymeasurebased on element types and spatial relations.
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Retrieval performance can often be improved by making thesimilaritymeasurethe subject of an adaptive learning process.
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In particular thesimilaritymeasurewas weighted according to formula (a).
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This selection process can be seen as a firstsimilaritymeasure, not very elaborate but widely applicable due to its reasonably low cost.
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This differed from the previous method in that it specified a similarity threshold when employing thesimilaritymeasure.
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The 2similaritymeasureusually performs better than does the histogram intersection method on object-recognition image databases.
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The criterion used to detect neighbour instances is thesimilaritymeasurebased on distance.
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The authors claim that this is their difference when comparing their work with other machine-learning approaches, where only a singlesimilaritymeasureis used.
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The knowledge containers are the vocabulary, thesimilaritymeasure, the case base and the adaptation rules.
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Automatic spelling correction using a trigramsimilaritymeasure.
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Shapesimilaritymeasurebased on correspondence of visual parts.
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With this representation, a localsimilaritymeasureis usually defined for each attribute and a global similarity measure is computed as a weighted average of the local similarities.
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