May 2019
Beginner
528 pages
29h 51m
English
Similarity detection is the process of analyzing documents to determine how alike they are. One possible similarity detection technique is word frequency counting. For example, some people believe that the works of William Shakespeare actually might have been written by Sir Francis Bacon, Christopher Marlowe or others.35 Comparing the word frequencies of their works with those of Shakespeare can reveal writing-style similarities.
Various machine-learning techniques we’ll discuss in later chapters can be used to study document similarity. However, as is often the case in Python, there are libraries such as spaCy and Gensim that can do this for ...
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