Geodesic distance based aproach for sentence similarity computation
Huifang Ma, Qing He, Zhongzhi Shi · 2008
This paper presents a novel approach based on geodesic distance for sentence similarity computation, which can be used in a query-based information retrieval system. Unlike the traditional distance methods, geodesic distance takes into account the spatial relationships of sentences, which better reflects the intrinsic geometric structure of sentence manifold. Experiments demonstrate that the proposed method shows a better correlation to human intuition compared with traditional Euclidean method.