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| Jan 11, 2018 at 9:15 | comment | added | jtlz2 | "A cosine is a cosine, and should not depend upon the data." !? If the data change, the cosine will change. Maybe you mean basis? | |
| May 13, 2012 at 19:09 | history | edited | fgregg | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 13, 2012 at 17:41 | comment | added | fgregg | Because documents are often represented as vectors. Cosine similarity is a measure of whether these vectors are pointing in the same direction. In practice, this often works as a measure of whether documents are about the same thing. | |
| May 13, 2012 at 15:42 | comment | added | samsamara | Then why cosine similarity comes as a similarity measure for text document clustering? | |
| May 13, 2012 at 14:52 | history | answered | fgregg | CC BY-SA 3.0 |