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Parametric and Non Parametric Measures for Text Similarity  

Mlyahilu, John (Department of IT Convergence and Application Engineering, Pukyong National University)
Kim, Jong-Nam (Department of IT Convergence and Application Engineering, Pukyong National University)
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Journal of the Institute of Convergence Signal Processing / v.20, no.4, 2019 , pp. 193-198 More about this Journal
Abstract
The wide spread of genuine and fake information on internet has lead to various studies on text analysis. Copying and pasting others' work without acknowledgement, research results manipulation without proof has been trending for a while in the era of data science. Various tools have been developed to reduce, combat and possibly eradicate plagiarism in various research fields. Text similarity measurements can be manually done by using both parametric and non parametric methods of which this study implements cosine similarity and Pearson correlation as parametric while Spearman correlation as non parametric. Cosine similarity and Pearson correlation metrics have achieved highest coefficients of similarity while Spearman shown low similarity coefficients. We recommend the use of non parametric methods in measuring text similarity due to their non normality assumption as opposed to the parametric methods which relies on normality assumptions and biasness.
Keywords
Similarity measure; Plagiarism; Correlation; Normality; Parametric measure;
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