Web Science/Part2: Emerging Web Properties/Modelling Similarity of Text/Jaccard Similarity for Sets
Jaccard Similarity for Sets
- Understand how text documents can be modeled as sets
- Know the Jaccard coefficient as a similarity measure on sets
- Know a trick how to remember the formula
- Be aware of the possible outcomes of the Jaccard index
- As always be able to criticize your model
The slides can be found at File:Jaccard-Similarity-for-Sets.pdf
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