%0 Conference Proceedings %1 citeulike:1238 %A Lin, Dekang %B Proc. 15th International Conf. on Machine Learning %D 1998 %I Morgan Kaufmann, San Francisco, CA %K information-theory, similarity %P 296--304 %T An information-theoretic definition of similarity %U http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.55.1832 %X Similarity is an important and widely used concept. Previous definitions of similarity are tied to a particular application or a form of knowledge representation. We present an informationtheoretic definition of similarity that is applicable as long as there is a probabilistic model. We demonstrate how our definition can be used to measure the similarity in a number of different domains. 1 Introduction Similarity is a fundamental and widely used concept. Many similarity measures have been...

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