docSim: Similarity between articles

In MeSHSim: MeSH(Medical Subject Headings) Semantic Similarity Measures

Description

Calculate the similarity between two articles.

Usage

    docSim(pmid1, pmid2, method="SP", frame="node", major=FALSE, env=NULL)

Arguments

pmid1, pmid2	pmids of two articles whose similarity is needed to be calculated.
method	similarity measurment method, see Details for available methods.
frame	available options are node and heading, decide whether using node-based or heading-based methods.
env	the dataset to use.
major	whether the calculation should only be based on major terms

Details

Available methods: SP: Shortest Path method, WL: Weighted Link method, WP: Wu and Palmer's method, LC: Leacock and Chodorow's method, Li: Li's method, Lord: Lord's method, Resnik: Resnik's method, Lin: Lin's method, JC: Jiang and Conrath's method.

Value

Semantic similarity between two MEDLINE documents, whose value is between 0 and 1.

Note

Network connection is required for using this function.

Examples

    docSim("1111113","1111111")

MeSHSim documentation built on May 31, 2017, 11:32 a.m.