R: Similarity Ratings for 65 Noun Pairs (wordspace)

RG65 {wordspace} | R Documentation

## Similarity Ratings for 65 Noun Pairs (wordspace)

### Description

A database of human similarity ratings for 65 English noun pairs, collected by Rubenstein & Goodenough (1965).

### Usage

    RG65

### Format

A data frame with 65 rows and the following 3 columns:

`word1`

  first noun (character)

`word2`

  second noun (character)

`score`

  average similarity rating by human judges on scale from 0 to 4 (numeric)

The nouns are given as disambiguated lemmas in the form `<headword>_N`.

### Details

The word pairs are sorted by increasing similarity score, as in the original paper.

### Source

Rubenstein, Herbert and Goodenough, John B. (1965). Contextual correlates of synonymy. Communications of the ACM, 8(10), 627–633.

### Examples

    head(RG65, 10) # least similar pairs
    tail(RG65, 10) # most similar pairs

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