A Survey of Text Similarity Approaches
Wael Hassan Gomaa, Aly A. Fahmy · International Journal of Computer Applications · 2013
Measuring the similarity between words, sentences, paragraphs and documents is an important component in various tasks such as information retrieval, document clustering, word-sense disambiguation, automatic essay scoring, short answer grading, machine translation and text summarization.This survey discusses the existing works on text similarity through partitioning them into three approaches; String-based, Corpus-based and Knowledgebased similarities.Furthermore, samples of combination between these similarities are presented.