Table 3

Running times for some of the similarity measures

Term Overlap

Normalized Term Overlap

Resnik

Lin

Jiang

Time (s)

226.8

260.5

2979

3092

3165

Time shown is total time taken for the 100,000 gene pair set R100K and excludes the cost of computing the IC values from the corpus. Averaged and maximum variants of the semantic similarity measures show no difference in time, thus only one value is displayed.

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