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Table 4 Semantic relatedness results for Disorders and Chemicals and Drugs semantic group pairs

From: Indirect association and ranking hypotheses for literature based discovery

Correlation Coefficients (ρ) and number of samples (n)

Method

UMNSRS Sim

UMNSRS Rel

Random

0.0460 (109)

0.0433 (122)

LTC

0.2480 (109)

0.2190 (121)

LTA

0.1622 (109)

0.3191 (121)

MWA

0.0412 (109)

0.2435 (121)

SBC

0.3639 (109)

0.4146 (121)

LSA

0.1982 (109)

0.2663 (121)

Dir Cos

0.2519 (109)

0.2878 (121)

Emb Cos

0.5690 (109)

0.5730 (122)

  1. Spearman’s Rank Correlation Coefficient and the number of terms compared for each method on the task of semantic similarity and relatedness. Each row shows the results for a single method, and each column for a different dataset. Bold terms indicate the best performance