Text::NSP::Measures::2D::Dice - Perl module that provides the framework to implement the Dice and Jaccard coefficients.

  use Text::NSP::Measures::2D::Dice::dice;

  my $npp = 60; my $n1p = 20; my $np1 = 20;  my $n11 = 10;

  $dice_value = calculateStatistic( n11=>$n11,
                                      n1p=>$n1p,
                                      np1=>$np1,
                                      npp=>$npp);

  if( ($errorCode = getErrorCode()))
  {
    print STDERR $errorCode." - ".getErrorMessage()."\n"";
  }
  else
  {
    print getStatisticName."value for bigram is ".$dice_value."\n"";
  }

Assume that the frequency count data associated with a bigram <word1><word2> is stored in a 2x2 contingency table:

          word2   ~word2
  word1    n11      n12 | n1p
 ~word1    n21      n22 | n2p
           --------------
           np1      np2   npp

where n11 is the number of times <word1><word2> occur together, and n12 is the number of times <word1> occurs with some word other than word2, and n1p is the number of times in total that word1 occurs as the first word in a bigram.

The Dice Coefficient is defined as :

     2 * n11
    ---------
    np1 + n1p

The Jaccard coefficient is defined as:

          n11
    ---------------
    n11 + n12 + n21

computeVal() - method to calculate the dice coefficient value

INPUT PARAMS : $count_values .. Reference of an hash containing the count values computed by the count.pl program.

RETURN VALUES : $dice .. Dice Coefficient value for this bigram.

Ted Pedersen, University of Minnesota Duluth<tpederse@d.umn.edu>

Satanjeev Banerjee, Carnegie Mellon University<satanjeev@cmu.edu>

Amruta Purandare, University of Pittsburgh<amruta@cs.pitt.edu>

Bridget Thomson-McInnes, University of Minnesota Twin Cities<bthompson@d.umn.edu>

Saiyam Kohli, University of Minnesota Duluth<kohli003@d.umn.edu>

Last updated: $Id: Dice.pm,v 1.6 2006/06/21 11:10:52 saiyam_kohli Exp $

@article{SmadjaMH96, author = {Smadja, F. and McKeown, K. and Hatzivassiloglou, V.}, title = {Translating Collocations for Bilingual Lexicons: A Statistical Approach}, journal = {Computational Linguistics}, volume = {22}, number = {1}, year = {1996}, pages = {1-38} url = http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/acl/J/J96/J96-1001.pdf}

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