Calculate Jaccard Similarity for a Pair of Topics — calcjaccard • topicl

A primary internal function for calculating Jaccard similarity for a given pair of topics.

Usage

calcjaccard(topic1, topic2)

Arguments

topic1: a vector with terms most representative of a topic.
topic2: a vector with terms most representative of another topic.

Value

a value of Jaccard similarity for a pair of topics (numerical).

Examples

topicA <- c("tax", "money", "million", "financi", "govern", "spend", "billion")
topicB <- c("iraq", "war", "militari", "iraqi", "troop", "forc", "will")

calcjaccard(topicA, topicB)
#> [1] 0