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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 2012 David Jurgens
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package edu.ucla.sspace.util;

import edu.ucla.sspace.vector.Vector;

import java.util.Set;


/**
 * An interface for utilities that finds the k-nearest neighbors of one
 * or more words in a given {@link SemanticSpace}
 */
public interface NearestNeighborFinder {

    /**
     * Finds the k most similar words in the semantic space according to
     * the cosine similarity, returning a mapping from their similarity to the
     * word itself.
     *
     * @return the most similar words, or {@code null} if the provided word was
     *         not in the semantic space.
     */
    SortedMultiMap getMostSimilar(
        String word, int numberOfSimilarWords);

    /**
     * Finds the k most similar words in the semantic space according to
     * the cosine similarity, returning a mapping from their similarity to the
     * word itself.
     *
     * @return the most similar words, or {@code null} if none of the provided
     *         word were not in the semantic space.
     */
    SortedMultiMap getMostSimilar(
        Set terms, int numberOfSimilarWords);

    /**
     * Finds the k most similar words in the semantic space according to
     * the cosine similarity, returning a mapping from their similarity to the
     * word itself.
     *
     * @return the most similar words to the vector
     */
    SortedMultiMap getMostSimilar(
        Vector v, int numberOfSimilarWords);
}