International Journal of Computer Applications |
Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA |
Volume 68 - Number 13 |
Year of Publication: 2013 |
Authors: Wael H. Gomaa, Aly A. Fahmy |
10.5120/11638-7118 |
Wael H. Gomaa, Aly A. Fahmy . A Survey of Text Similarity Approaches. International Journal of Computer Applications. 68, 13 ( April 2013), 13-18. DOI=10.5120/11638-7118
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 Knowledge-based similarities. Furthermore, samples of combination between these similarities are presented.