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understanding text similarity

What is text similarity?

When talking about text similarity, different people have a slightly different notion on what text similarity means. In essence, the goal is to compute how ‘close’ two pieces of text are in (1) meaning or (2) surface closeness. The first is referred to as semantic similarity and the latter is referred to as lexical similarity. Although the methods for lexical similarity …

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Leveraging large amounts of opinions for decision making

Opinion Driven Decision Support System (ODSS) refers to the use of large amounts of online opinions to facilitate business and consumer decision making. The idea is to combine the strengths of search technologies with opinion mining and analysis tools to provide a synergistic decision making platform. The research and engineering problems related to developing such …

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