4.1 - Document Similarity and Its Applications
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Practice Questions
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What is document similarity?
💡 Hint: Think about why comparing documents might be important.
What does edit distance measure?
💡 Hint: Consider the operations like add, remove, or change characters.
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What is the edit distance?
💡 Hint: Think about all possible character changes.
True or False: Semantic meaning is not important when assessing document similarity.
💡 Hint: Consider how synonyms relate.
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Develop an algorithm that utilizes dynamic programming to compute edit distance for a set of two documents.
💡 Hint: Tracks minimal operations when transforming substrings.
Design a search engine feature that incorporates semantic meaning in document similarity. Describe how it would function.
💡 Hint: Consider how broader meanings can improve search relevancy.
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