This isn't really a Rails post but this group has given such great responses to a range of questions over the years I though I'd ask anyway.
I've been tasked with writting a Rails app that takes a block of text, anywhere from about 50 characters up to 300 characters - about a sentance or two, and compares it to other similar sized blocks of text and compares how similar they are, content wise and contextually. It doesn't have to be perfect but it has to be reasonably close. I was thinking that it would be good to be able to get a numerical score depending on how close they were (90 is really close, 20 is not very close at all) but I'm certainly open to ideas. Anyway, the problem is I have no idea how to do this or even where to look to get started. I really doubt that there is already a Ruby library to do this (although that would rock) , or a Rails plug-in (although that would rock really hard) so I'm more looking for ideas on what I should be reading to get a sense on how to start on this. Anything would help, theoretical ideas, technical papers, Wikipedia articles, anything. Anyway, any suggestions are greatly appreciated. Dale --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
