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Why is cosine better for text?
The Cosine Similarity is a better metric than Euclidean distance because if the two text document far apart by Euclidean distance, there are still chances that they are close to each other in terms of their context.
Why cosine distance is more convenient than Euclidean distance for text analysis?
The cosine similarity is advantageous because even if the two similar documents are far apart by the Euclidean distance (due to the size of the document), chances are they may still be oriented closer together. The smaller the angle, higher the cosine similarity.
Does cosine similarity work in high dimensions?
Cosine is mostly used on very sparse, discrete domains such as text. Here, most dimensions are 0 and do not matter at all.
What is the purpose of cosine similarity?
Cosine similarity measures the similarity between two vectors of an inner product space. It is measured by the cosine of the angle between two vectors and determines whether two vectors are pointing in roughly the same direction. It is often used to measure document similarity in text analysis.
What is the benefit of cosine similarity?
Advantages : The cosine similarity is beneficial because even if the two similar data objects are far apart by the Euclidean distance because of the size, they could still have a smaller angle between them. Smaller the angle, higher the similarity.
What is the difference between Euclidean and cosine distance?
While cosine looks at the angle between vectors (thus not taking into regard their weight or magnitude), euclidean distance is similar to using a ruler to actually measure the distance.
Why Euclidean distance fails in high dimensions?
I read that ‘Euclidean distance is not a good distance in high dimensions’. I guess this statement has something to do with the curse of dimensionality, but what exactly? Besides, what is ‘high dimensions’? I have been applying hierarchical clustering using Euclidean distance with 100 features.
What is a good cosine similarity?
The higher similarity, the lower distances. When you pick the threshold for similarities for text/documents, usually a value higher than 0.5 shows strong similarities.