A Comparison of Similarity Measures for Text Documents

Similarity is an important and widely used concept in many applications such as Document Summarisation, Question Answering, Information Retrieval, Document Clustering and Categorisation. This paper presents a comparison of various similarity measures in comparing the content of text documents. We have attempted to find the best measure suited for finding the document similarity for newspaper reports.

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Year of publication:	2008
Authors:	Hariharan, Shanmugasundaram ; Srinivasan, Rengaramanujam
Published in:	Journal of Information & Knowledge Management (JIKM). - World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., ISSN 1793-6926. - Vol. 07.2008, 01, p. 1-8
Publisher:	World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.
Subject:	Stop words \| stemming \| normalisation \| similarity measure \| discriminant

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Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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