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An Information-Theoretic Definition of Similarity (1998) [325 citations — 0 self]

by Dekang Lin
In Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Machine Learning
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Abstract:

Similarity is an important and widely used concept. Previous definitions of similarity are tied to a particular application or a form of knowledge representation. We present an informationtheoretic definition of similarity that is applicable as long as there is a probabilistic model. We demonstrate how our definition can be used to measure the similarity in a number of different domains.

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