A single word, given as a character of length(x) = 1
y
A single word, given as a character of length(y) = 1
method
Specifies whether to compute euclidean or cityblock metric
tvectors
the semantic space in which the computation is to be done (a numeric matrix where every row is a word vector)
Author
Fritz Guenther
Details
Computes Minkowski metrics, i.e. geometric distances between the vectors for two given words. Possible options are euclidean for the Euclidean Distance, \( d(x,y) = \sqrt{\sum{(x-y)^2}}\), and cityblock for the City Block metric, \( d(x,y) = \sum{|x-y|}\)