resnik: Calculate Resnik similarity score of two term sets

In ontologySimilarity: Calculating Ontological Similarities

Description

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

Usage

resnik(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

Resnik, P. (1995). ‘Using information content to evaluate semantic similarity in a taxonomy’. Proceedings of the 14th IJCAI 1, 448-453.

See Also

lin, get_term_sim_mat

ontologySimilarity documentation built on Feb. 10, 2021, 5:08 p.m.