To this end, the noun n is substituted in turn with each of its k distributionally most similar nouns, n i , and then both of the obtained "similar" pairs n i , v and n i , v are sought in the training set.
after empirical tuning of weights for the arithmetic mean, Weeds and Weir's formula practically reduces to Lin's measure, as was anticipated by their own analysis (in Section 4 of their paper).