What are some good methods to find the “relatedness” of two bodies of text?

Question

Here\'s the problem -- I have a few thousand small text snippets, anywhere from a few words to a few sentences - the largest snippet is about 2k on disk. I want to be able to c

Answer 1

Jeff talked about something like this on the pod cast to find the Related questions listed on the right side here. (in podcast 32)

One big tip was to remove all common words, like "the" "and" "this" etc. This will leave you with more meaningful words to compare.

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