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Table 3 Refined rating scale

From: Similarity corpus on microbial transcriptional regulation

SPSS

Description

4

Both sentences have in common the same objects and express the same meaning.

3

Both sentences share the same objects and other elements of their meaning. However, one of the sentences lacks relevant elements or refers to the same objects, and it arrives at different conclusions.

2

Both sentences share at least one specific object and some other similarities. In this sense, contrasting conditions are considered related conditions.

1

Both sentences have the same object class in common, but the specific object is different.

0

Sentences do not even share objects of the same class.