/** * Returns the ranking <i>k</i> such that {@code other} is the k<sup>th</th> most similar word to * {@code target} in the semantic space. */ private int findRank(SemanticSpace sspace, String target, String other) { Vector v1 = sspace.getVector(target); Vector v2 = sspace.getVector(other); // Compute the base similarity between the two words double baseSim = Similarity.cosineSimilarity(v1, v2); int rank = 0; // Next, count how many words are more similar to the target than the // other word is for (String word : sspace.getWords()) { Vector v = sspace.getVector(word); double sim = Similarity.cosineSimilarity(v1, v); if (sim > baseSim) rank++; } return rank; }