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RG65: Similarity Ratings for 65 Noun Pairs (wordspace)

Description

A database of human similarity ratings for 65 English noun pairs, collected by Rubenstein & Goodenough (1965).

Usage

RG65

Format

A data frame with 65 rows and the following 3 columns:

word1

first noun (character)

word2

second noun (character)

score

average similarity rating by human judges on scale from 0 to 4 (numeric)

The nouns are given as disambiguated lemmas in the form <headword>_N.

Details

The word pairs are sorted by increasing similarity score, as in the original paper.

Examples

# NOT RUN {
head(RG65, 10) # least similar pairs
tail(RG65, 10) # most similar pairs

# }