wordsim353crowd_guidelines.txt

###Overview
Estimation of word similarity
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Hello,

We kindly ask you to assist us in a psycholinguistic experiment, 
aimed at estimating the similarity of various words in the English 
language. The purpose of this experiment is to assign similarity scores 
to pairs of words, so that machine learning algorithms can be 
subsequently trained and adjusted using human-assigned scores.

Below is a list of pairs of words. For each pair, please assign 
a numerical similarity score between 0 and 10 (0 = words are totally 
unrelated, 10 = words are VERY closely related). By definition, 
the similarity of the word to itself should be 10. You may assign 
fractional scores (for example, 7.5).

### Specific instructions:

1) If you do not know the meaning of a particular word - please use 
   a dictionary, or ask a native English speaker.

2) When estimating similarity of antonyms, consider them "similar"
   (i.e., belonging to the same domain or representing features of the same 
   concept), rather than "dissimilar".

Thank you for your assistance !