RG65 {wordspace}

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