HESML V1R5

HESML V1R5 implements most ontology-based semantic similarity measures and Information Content (IC) models reported in the literature which are based on WordNet, SNOMED-CT, MeSH, GO, and OBO-based ontologies. The main novelties provided by HESML V1R5 are as follows: (1) implementation of the SNOMED-CT, MeSH, GO and OBO-based ontologies for the biomedical domain; (2) software implementation of six new groupwise similarity measures as follows: SimUI [8], SimLP [8], SimGIC [9], Average [10], Maximum [11], Best-match-Average (BMA) [10]; and finally, (3) the introduction of a new family of efficient path-based semantic similarity measures based on the reformulation of path-based measures using the new AncSPL [7] algorithm for the real-time computation of the length of the shortest path between concepts.