Web Science/Part2: Emerging Web Properties/Modelling Similarity of Text/Cosine Similarity For Vectorspaces
Cosine Similarity For Vectorspaces
- Be familiar with the vector space model for text documents
- Be aware of term frequency and (inverse) document frequency
- Have reviewed the definitions of base and dimension
- Realize that the angle between two vectors can be seen as a similarity measure
The slides can be found at File:Cosine-Similarity-For-Vectorspaces.pdf
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