distance syntaxique

CONT: (Pour la sélection de germes à chaque itération (...), on utilise une notion de distance syntaxique des descriptions d'instance par rapport à la description de classe.

CONT: ... the syntactic distance between two variable values is a number from 0 to 1, determined by a measure which reflects the domain type of the variable. For a nominal variable, the syntactic distance is either 0, if the values taken by the variable in each event are identical, or 1, if the values are not identical.