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The S-Space Package is a collection of algorithms for building Semantic Spaces as well as a highly-scalable library for designing new distributional semantics algorithms. Distributional algorithms process text corpora and represent the semantic for words as high dimensional feature vectors. This package also includes matrices, vectors, and numerous clustering algorithms. These approaches are known by many names, such as word spaces, semantic spaces, or distributed semantics and rest upon the Distributional Hypothesis: words that appear in similar contexts have similar meanings.

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 * Copyright 2010 Keith Stevens
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package edu.ucla.sspace.evaluation;

import edu.ucla.sspace.common.SemanticSpace;


/**
 * An interface for performing priming tests where there is no normed set of
 * responses to compare against.  These tests simply measure the associational
 * strength between a prime,target pair and prime, unrelated target pairs.  The
 * key result is the effect of related primes, where a high effect suggests that
 * that semantic space models the particular form of priming modeled by some
 * implemented test.
 *
 * @author Keith Stevens
 */
public interface WordPrimingTest {

    /**
     * Evaluates a {@link SemanticSpace} on a particular test of word priming
     * pairs.
     */
    public WordPrimingReport evaluate(SemanticSpace sspace);
}