Given that the associative meanings of a word is defined as the set of associates evoked by that word and the relatedness between two words is dependent upon the degree of overlap of their respective associative meaning (Garskof and Houston, 1963), this program computes the relatedness coefficient, RC, for two values of p, the weighting exponent.
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