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Author Canessa, E.; Chaigneau, S.E.; Moreno, S.; Lagos, R.
Title Informational content of cosine and other similarities calculated from high-dimensional Conceptual Property Norm data Type
Year 2020 Publication Cognitive Processing Abbreviated Journal Cogn. Process.
Volume 21 Issue Pages 601-614
Keywords Cosine similarity; Euclidean distance; Chebyshev distance; Clustering; Conceptual properties
Abstract To study concepts that are coded in language, researchers often collect lists of conceptual properties produced by human subjects. From these data, different measures can be computed. In particular, inter-concept similarity is an important variable used in experimental studies. Among possible similarity measures, the cosine of conceptual property frequency vectors seems to be a de facto standard. However, there is a lack of comparative studies that test the merit of different similarity measures when computed from property frequency data. The current work compares four different similarity measures (cosine, correlation, Euclidean and Chebyshev) and five different types of data structures. To that end, we compared the informational content (i.e., entropy) delivered by each of those 4 x 5 = 20 combinations, and used a clustering procedure as a concrete example of how informational content affects statistical analyses. Our results lead us to conclude that similarity measures computed from lower-dimensional data fare better than those calculated from higher-dimensional data, and suggest that researchers should be more aware of data sparseness and dimensionality, and their consequences for statistical analyses.
Address [Canessa, Enrique; Chaigneau, Sergio E.] Univ Adolfo Ibanez, Sch Psychol, Ctr Cognit Res CINCO, Ave Presidente Errazuriz 3328, Santiago, Chile, Email: ecanessa@uai.cl
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Publisher Springer Heidelberg Place of Publication Editor
Language English Summary Language Original Title
Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title
Series Volume Series Issue Edition (up)
ISSN 1612-4782 ISBN Medium
Area Expedition Conference
Notes WOS:000546845700001 Approved
Call Number UAI @ eduardo.moreno @ Serial 1180
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