Table 2 The calculation of pairwise cosine similarities of four example nouns observed by bot #1, which were obtained using word2veca

From: Simple autonomous agents can enhance creative semantic discovery by human groups

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cat

dog

rat

desk

cat

1

0.76

0.53

0.16

dog

0.76

1

0.44

0.12

rat

0.53

0.44

1

0.06

desk

0.16

0.12

0.06

1

  1. aThe least or most similar noun can be determined by computing the average of the values in the rows and choosing the noun with the smallest or largest values, respectively. In this example, the least similar noun is desk. The cosine similarities with each of the other nouns are 0.16, 0.12, and 0.06. On the other hand, the most similar noun is cat. The cosine similarities with each of the other nouns are 0.76, 0.53, and 0.16.