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

Description Usage Arguments Details Value Examples

View source: R/node.R

Calculate similarity between two MeSH nodes.

1	nodeSim(node1, node2, method="SP", frame="node", env=NULL)

`node1, node2`	two nodes or two lists of nodes
`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.

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.

Semantic similarity between two MeSH nodes, whose value is between 0 and 1.