Re: statistical similarity of two text

2001-07-22 Thread Yuval Feinstein
snip As Rich Ulrich and others have already said: Do you want to check surface similarity? You can use a bag-of-words representation and a cosine distance between two texts, or more sophisticated versions: See: An Information-Theoretic Definition of Similarity , by Dekang Lin:

Re: statistical similarity of two text

2001-07-22 Thread Jason Harrison
Cantor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Does anybody know where I can find program on the website which compare two text/article and settle whether or not they are similar assuming any significant level. You may want to try Latent Semantic Analysis -- this technique looks at the meaning of the words

Re: statistical similarity of two text

2001-07-19 Thread Rich Ulrich
On 18 Jul 2001 03:41:57 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Donald Burrill) wrote: On Tue, 17 Jul 2001, Cantor wrote: Does anybody know where I can find program on the website which [can] compare two texts/articles and settle whether or not they are similar assuming any significant level. DB

Re: statistical similarity of two text

2001-07-19 Thread Dennis Roberts
At 04:21 PM 7/19/01 -0400, Rich Ulrich wrote: On 18 Jul 2001 03:41:57 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Donald Burrill) wrote: On Tue, 17 Jul 2001, Cantor wrote: Does anybody know where I can find program on the website which [can] compare two texts/articles and settle whether or not they are

Re: statistical similarity of two text

2001-07-18 Thread Donald Burrill
On Tue, 17 Jul 2001, Cantor wrote: Does anybody know where I can find program on the website which [can] compare two texts/articles and settle whether or not they are similar assuming any significant level. Sorry, Cantor: this is not possible, in general. One can discover whether two

statistical similarity of two text

2001-07-17 Thread Cantor
Hello, Does anybody know where I can find program on the website which compare two text/article and settle whether or not they are similar assuming any significant level. Thanks in advance Cantor = Instructions for joining and