A Comparison of Similarity Measures for Text Documents
Shanmugasundaram Hariharan, Rengaramanujam Srinivasan · Journal of Information & Knowledge Management · 2008
Similarity is an important and widely used concept in many applications such as Document Summarisation, Question Answering, Information Retrieval, Document Clustering and Categorisation. This paper presents a comparison of various similarity measures in comparing the content of text documents. We have attempted to find the best measure suited for finding the document similarity for newspaper reports.