A Comparison of Similarity Measures for Text Documents

Shanmugasundaram Hariharan () and Rengaramanujam Srinivasan ()
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Shanmugasundaram Hariharan: Faculty of Information Technology, B.S.A. Crescent Engineering College Chennai, Tamilnadu, India
Rengaramanujam Srinivasan: Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering, B.S.A. Crescent Engineering College Chennai, Tamilnadu, India

Journal of Information & Knowledge Management (JIKM), 2008, vol. 07, issue 01, 1-8

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Stop words; stemming; normalisation; similarity measure; discriminant (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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