[Corpora-List] tf-idf vs. cosine in natural texts
Chris Jordan
chris.jordan at acm.org
Wed Dec 17 11:07:46 UTC 2008
TF-IDF is used for assigning weight to terms in a document.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tfidf
Cosine similarity is used for comparing term vectors that represent
documents.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosine_similarity
On 17-Dec-08, at 2:10 AM, KHALED ABDALGADER wrote:
> Hi
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> I'm curious: what's the difference between using TF-IDF and cosine
> as the retrieval model in natural texts?
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> Perhaps someone can point me to the difference or offer a brief
> description. Please ...
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> Thanks in advance
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> Khaled
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