lin: Calculate Lin similarity score of two term sets

In ontologySimilarity: Calculating Ontological Similarities

Calculate Lin similarity score of two term sets

Description

Warning! This function is slow - performing large numbers of ‘between term-set’ similarity calculations should be done using get_sim_grid.

Usage

lin(ontology, information_content, term_set_1, term_set_2)

Arguments

ontology	ontology_index object.
information_content	Numeric vector of information contents of terms (named by term)
term_set_1	Character vector of terms.
term_set_2	Character vector of terms.

Value

Numeric value.

References

Lin D (1998). ‘An Information-Theoretic Definition of Similarity.’ In Shavlik JW (ed.), _Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 1998), Madison, Wisconsin, USA, July 24-27, 1998_, pp. 296-304.

See Also

resnik, get_term_sim_mat

ontologySimilarity documentation built on May 29, 2024, 3:51 a.m.