similarity score
collocation in Englishmeaningsofsimilarityandscore
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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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score
noun
uk/skɔːr/us/skɔːr/
the number of points, goals, etc. achieved in a game ...
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(Definition ofsimilarityandscorefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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When comparing two sentences, the first constraint is that thesimilarityscoreis 100% if the two sentences are identical.
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Moreover, it uses a comparison of question types in a taxonomy derived from the query, and a semanticsimilarityscorein question matching.
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Their linguistic matcher looks at all possible pairs of terms from the two ontologies and assigns asimilarityscoreto each pair.
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Thesimilarityscoreof two strings is then normalised with respect to the highest generated score in the application.
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Then, summation over all categories produces thesimilarityscoreof the two sentences under comparison.
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The similarity scores from all of the essay-prompt comparisons, including thesimilarityscorethat is generated by comparing the essay to the target prompt, are calculated and sorted.
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This initialsimilarityscore("initn") is used to rank the library sequences.
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Thesimilarityscoreis often based on sequence alignment.
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Calculate asimilarityscorethat is the sum of the joined regions penalising for each gap 20 points.
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A profile is a matrix containing for each position in the query sequence thesimilarityscorefor the 20 amino acids.
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Furthermore, mean similarity scores for all stimuli within each condition, collapsed across participants, were calculated.
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In themselves the similarity scores are not very informative, since we have no basis of comparison.
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So making parsetrees extend down through the tokens to the separate characters of a text would artificially raise the similarity scores between tree-pairs.
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In calculating these mean similarity scores, we corrected for response omissions as was done in the foregoing analysis.
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In this case it is necessary to combine evidence from the document rankings rather than document-query similarity scores.
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Then, similarity allows us to rank items and even prune those with the lowest similarity scores.
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The similarity scores are derived from the ones used in semantic broadening, so that direct synonyms have a similarity of 1.0, and less directly related terms have a lower score.
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Word alignment clues can come from various sources such as statistical alignment models, co-occurrence tests, string similarity scores and static dictionaries.
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Furthermore, mean similarity scores for the items (nouns and verbs) within each concreteness by cognate status condition, collapsed across the participants within each of the four association conditions, were calculated.
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This ensures that groups of identities with high similarity scores contribute more to the local diagonal score than to identities with low similarity scores.
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