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Slot: similarity_measure

The measure used for computing a similarity score. This field is meant to be used in conjunction with the similarity_score field, to document, for example, the lexical or semantic match of a matching algorithm. To make processing this field as unambiguous as possible, we recommend using wikidata CURIEs, but the type of this field is deliberately unspecified.

URI: sssom:similarity_measure

Applicable Classes

Name Description Modifies Slot
Mapping Represents an individual mapping between a pair of entities no

Properties

Examples

Value
https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q865360
wikidata:Q865360
Levenshtein distance

See Also

Identifier and Mapping Information

Schema Source

  • from schema: https://w3id.org/sssom/schema/

LinkML Source

name: similarity_measure
description: The measure used for computing a similarity score. This field is meant
  to be used in conjunction with the similarity_score field, to document, for example,
  the lexical or semantic match of a matching algorithm. To make processing this field
  as unambiguous as possible, we recommend using wikidata CURIEs, but the type of
  this field is deliberately unspecified.
examples:
- value: https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q865360
  description: (the Wikidata IRI for the Jaccard index measure).
- value: wikidata:Q865360
  description: (the Wikidata CURIE for the Jaccard index measure).
- value: Levenshtein distance
  description: (a score to measure the distance between two character sequences).
from_schema: https://w3id.org/sssom/schema/
see_also:
- https://github.com/mapping-commons/sssom/issues/385
- https://github.com/mapping-commons/sssom/pull/386
- https://github.com/mapping-commons/sssom/blob/master/examples/schema/similarity_score.sssom.tsv
rank: 1000
alias: similarity_measure
domain_of:
- mapping
range: string