Lucene can't help you.
What about using term vectors though? I've been able to do rudimentary document similarity calculations using the new support in Lucene 1.4. Search the 'net for more info on term vectors and the formulas needed (elementary vector angle calculation, actually).
Erik
Am 31.05.2004 um 20:10 schrieb uddam chukmol:
Hi,
I'm a newbie to Lucene and heard that it helps in the information retrieval process. However, my problem is not really related to the information retrieval but to the comparison of two texts. I think Lucene may help resolving it.
I would like to have a clue on how to compare two given texts and finally say how much they are similar.
Has anyone had this kind of experience? I will be very grateful to hear your ideas and your recommendations.
Thanks before hand!
Uddam CHUKMOL
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