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The inclusion of semantic information in any similarity measures improves the efficiency of the similarity measure and provides human interpretable results for further analysis. The similarity calculation method that focuses on features…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-11-01 Pinky Sitikhu , Kritish Pahi , Pujan Thapa , Subarna Shakya

Job descriptions are posted on many online channels, including company websites, job boards or social media platforms. These descriptions are usually published with varying text for the same job, due to the requirements of each platform or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Matthias Engelbach , Dennis Klau , Maximilien Kintz , Alexander Ulrich

Similarity query is the family of queries based on some similarity metrics. Unlike the traditional database queries which are mostly based on value equality, similarity queries aim to find targets "similar enough to" the given data objects,…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Yifan Wang

Identifying similar documents within extensive volumes of data poses a significant challenge. To tackle this issue, researchers have developed a variety of effective distributed computing techniques. With the advancement of computing power…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Chandrashekar Muniyappa , Eunjin Kim

Traditional document similarity measures provide a coarse-grained distinction between similar and dissimilar documents. Typically, they do not consider in what aspects two documents are similar. This limits the granularity of applications…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-14 Malte Ostendorff , Terry Ruas , Till Blume , Bela Gipp , Georg Rehm

Modelling semantic similarity plays a fundamental role in lexical semantic applications. A natural way of calculating semantic similarity is to access handcrafted semantic networks, but similarity prediction can also be anticipated in a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-03 Dongqiang Yang , Yanqin Yin

Estimating the semantic similarity between text data is one of the challenging and open research problems in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP). The versatility of natural language makes it difficult to define rule-based methods…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Dhivya Chandrasekaran , Vijay Mago

This paper describes an efficiently scalable approach to measure technological similarity between patents by combining embedding techniques from natural language processing with nearest-neighbor approximation. Using this methodology we are…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2021-11-11 Daniel Hain , Roman Jurowetzki , Tobias Buchmann , Patrick Wolf

One of the important factors that make a search engine fast and accurate is a concise and duplicate free index. In order to remove duplicate and near-duplicate documents from the index, a search engine needs a swift and reliable duplicate…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-09-26 Hamid Mohammadi , Seyed Hossein Khasteh

Citation recommendation is the task of finding appropriate citations based on a given piece of text. The proposed datasets for this task consist mainly of several scientific fields, lacking some core ones, such as law. Furthermore, citation…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-11-13 Doğukan Arslan , Saadet Sena Erdoğan , Gülşen Eryiğit

In this work the methods of comparison of digitized copies of administrative documents were considered. This problem arises, for example, when comparing two copies of documents signed by two parties in order to find possible modifications…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-30 Elena Andreeva , Vladimir V. Arlazarov , Oleg Slavin , Aleksey Mishev

Quantifying the degree of similarity between images is a key copyright issue for image-based machine learning. In legal doctrine however, determining the degree of similarity between works requires subjective analysis, and fact-finders…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-15 Alessandro Achille , Greg Ver Steeg , Tian Yu Liu , Matthew Trager , Carson Klingenberg , Stefano Soatto

Recommender systems assist legal professionals in finding relevant literature for supporting their case. Despite its importance for the profession, legal applications do not reflect the latest advances in recommender systems and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-29 Malte Ostendorff , Elliott Ash , Terry Ruas , Bela Gipp , Julian Moreno-Schneider , Georg Rehm

Text similarity detection aims at measuring the degree of similarity between a pair of texts. Corpora available for text similarity detection are designed to evaluate the algorithms to assess the paraphrase level among documents. In this…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-03-14 Juan-Manuel Torres-Moreno , Gerardo Sierra , Peter Peinl

Network node similarity measure has been paid particular attention in the field of statistical physics. In this paper, we utilize the concept of information and information loss to measure the node similarity. The whole model is based on…

Physics and Society · Physics 2014-03-19 Yongli Li , Peng Luo , Chong Wu

We describe a new method for summarizing similarities and differences in a pair of related documents using a graph representation for text. Concepts denoted by words, phrases, and proper names in the document are represented positionally as…

cmp-lg · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Inderjeet Mani , Eric Bloedorn

Search techniques make use of elementary information such as term frequencies and document lengths in computation of similarity weighting. They can also exploit richer statistics, in particular the number of documents in which any two terms…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-07-20 Bodo Billerbeck , Justin Zobel , Nicholas Lester , Nick Craswell

Quantifying the similarity between datasets has widespread applications in statistics and machine learning. The performance of a predictive model on novel datasets, referred to as generalizability, depends on how similar the training and…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-06-18 Marieke Stolte , Franziska Kappenberg , Jörg Rahnenführer , Andrea Bommert

Identifying texts with a given semantics is central for many information seeking scenarios. Similarity search over vector embeddings appear to be central to this ability, yet the similarity reflected in current text embeddings is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-25 Shauli Ravfogel , Valentina Pyatkin , Amir DN Cohen , Avshalom Manevich , Yoav Goldberg

Document similarity is the problem of estimating the degree to which a given pair of documents has similar semantic content. An accurate document similarity measure can improve several enterprise relevant tasks such as document clustering,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Gaurav Maheshwari , Priyansh Trivedi , Harshita Sahijwani , Kunal Jha , Sourish Dasgupta , Jens Lehmann