This might be useful: http://engtagger.rubyforge.org/
On Jun 19, 7:25 pm, PeteSalty <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
