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Welcome to the SImilarity MEasures for ONtologies wiki. This wiki its a catalog of similarity and distance functions useful for matching in ontologies.

Content

• Definitions
  • Similarity function
  • Distance function
• Classification
• Similarity functions for basic data types
  • Identity similarity
  • Similarity functions for boolean data
    • XNOR similarity
  • Similarity functions for numeric data
    • Difference distance
  • Similarity functions for words
    • Morphosyntactic similarity
    • Synonymy similarity
    • Synonyms sets similarity
    • Information content similarity
    • Resnik similarity
    • Shortest path similarity
    • Ancestors similarity
• Similarity functions for composed data types
  • Similarity functions for sequences
    • Hamming similarity for sequences
    • Subsequence similarity
    • n-grams similarity
    • Edit distance
    • Monge-Elkan distance
    • Jaro distance
    • Jaro-Winkler distance
    • Jaccard similarity
    • Term frequency / Inverse Document Frequency (TFIDF)
    • Jensen-Shannon distance
    • Fellegi-Sunter distance
    • Recursive Monge-Elkan similarity
  • Similarity functions for sets
    • Jaccard similarity
    • Dice similarity
    • Minimum distance
    • Maximum distance
    • Average distance
    • Optimal match distance
  • Similarity functions for multisets
    • Jaccard multisets similarity
    • Chi-square similarity
    • Term frequency / Inverse Document Frequency (TFIDF)
  • Similarity functions for tuples
    • Average similarity
    • Weighted average similarity
  • Similarity functions for vectors
    • Hamming similarity for vectors
    • Tversky contrast model similarity
    • Generalized model similarity
    • Minkowski distance
    • Manhattan distance
    • Euclidean distance
    • Tchebychev distance
    • Tanimoto similarity
  • Similarity functions for lists
    • List length similarity