That particular trick wouldn't work because you are losing the essence of real numbers with this step. If 1.0 refers to one string and 2.0 refers to another, what does 1.5 refer to?
Better to use trigrams as the labels for the coordinates and weight them by inverse document frequency. On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 6:28 AM, Juan Francisco Contreras Gaitan < [email protected]> wrote: > > ... I could use a Map between doubles and strings: storaging doubles in all > the algorithm, and retrieving the strings to compute distance in measuring > steps. >
