Understanding and Using Common Similarity Measures for Text Analysis

This tutorial will focus on measuring distance among texts by describing the advantages and disadvantages of three of the most common distance measures: city block or “Manhattan” distance, Euclidean distance, and cosine distance. In this lesson, you will learn when to use one measure over another an...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: John R. Ladd
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Editorial Board of the Programming Historian 2020-05-01
Series:The Programming Historian
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Online Access:https://programminghistorian.org/en/lessons/common-similarity-measures