Likert Semantic Word Similarity (LSWS) Rating Scale

A Likert Semantic Word Similarity (LSWS) Rating Scale is a Semantic Word Similarity Rating Scale based on a Likert psychometric scale.

• AKA: Likert Word Similarity Scale.
• Example(s):
  • a five-point Likert similarity scale used in the SemEval-2017 Task 2:

4	Very similar	The two words are synonyms (e.g., midday-noon or motherboard-mainboard).
3	Similar	The two words share many of the important ideas of their meaning but include slightly different details. They refer to similar but not identical concepts (e.g., lion-zebra or firefighter-policeman).
2	Slightly similar	The two words do not have a very similar meaning, but share a common topic/domain/function and ideasor concepts that are related (e.g., house-window or airplane-pilot).
1	Dissimilar	The two words describe clearly dissimilar concepts, but may share some small details, a far relationship or a domain in common and might be likely to be found together in a longer document on the same topic (e.g., software-keyboard or driver-suspension).
0	Totally dissimilar and unrelated	The two words do not mean the same thing and are not on the same topic (e.g., 'pencil-frog or PlayStation-monarchy).

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• Counter-Example(s):
  • Word Relatedness Rating Scale,
  • Numeric Rating Scale (NRS),
  • Verbal Rating Scale (VRS),
  • Visual Analogue Scale (VAS),
  • Graphic Rating Scale,
  • Descriptive Graphic Rating Scale,
  • Semantic Differential Rating Scale,
  • Phrase Completion Scale.
• See: Word Similarity Measure, Semantic Similarity Score, Rating Scale, Mokken Scale, Rasch Model, Psychometric Scale.

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References

2017

• (Camacho-Collados et al., 2017) ⇒ Jose Camacho-Collados, Mohammad Taher Pilehvar, Nigel Collier, and Roberto Navigli. (2017). “SemEval-2017 Task 2: Multilingual and Cross-lingual Semantic Word Similarity.” In: Proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval@ACL 2017).

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