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<strong>Introduction</strong> <strong>to</strong> <strong>Information</strong> <strong>Retrieval</strong><br />

Take 1: Jaccard coefficient<br />

• A commonly used measure of overlap of two sets<br />

• Let A and B be two sets<br />

• Jaccard coefficient:<br />

• JACCARD (A, A) = 1<br />

• JACCARD (A, B) = 0 if A ∩ B = 0<br />

• A and B don’t have <strong>to</strong> be the same size.<br />

• Always assigns a number between 0 and 1.<br />

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