Table 2. Word-pair semantic similarity measurement.

Word pair	Human [43]	α = 0	α = −0.5	α = 0.5
car-automobile	3.92	1.000	1.000	1.000
gem-jewel	3.84	1.000	1.000	1.000
coast-shore	3.7	0.548	0.313	0.702
magician-wizard	3.5	0.369	0.103	0.577
food-fruit	3.08	0.656	0.249	0.833
bird-crane	2.97	0.728	0.291	0.911
brother-monk	2.82	0.369	0.354	0.572
cemetery-woodland	0.95	0.117	0.033	0.360
food-rooster	0.89	0.622	0.083	0.902
coast-hill	0.87	0.377	0.051	0.651
forest-graveyard	0.84	0.188	0.061	0.451
shore-woodland	0.63	0.270	0.085	0.572
monk-slave	0.55	0.447	0.128	0.750
coast-forest	0.42	0.451	0.208	0.683
chord-smile	0.13	0.114	0.020	0.432
glass-magician	0.11	0.199	0.035	0.501
noon-string	0.08	0.232	0.050	0.486

We used the subset of pairs provided in reference [43] (Human judgment column), and reproduced for comparison purposes in reference [42], that are found in the giant component of SEW. RIM cosine similarities are listed for three different weighting schemes parameterized by (see Eq. (5)).