%0 Conference Paper %1 similarity-lin %A Lin, Dekang %B ICML %D 1998 %E Shavlik, Jude W. %E Shavlik, Jude W. %I Morgan Kaufmann %K qual web-mining %P 296--304 %T An Information-Theoretic Definition of Similarity %U http://dblp.uni-trier.de/rec/bibtex/conf/icml/Lin98 %X Similarity is an important and widely used con- cept. Previous definitions of similarity are tied to a particular application or a form of knowl- edge representation. We present an information- theoretic definition of similarity that is applica- ble 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. %@ 1-55860-556-8

@inproceedings{similarity-lin, abstract = {{Similarity is an important and widely used con- cept. Previous definitions of similarity are tied to a particular application or a form of knowl- edge representation. We present an information- theoretic definition of similarity that is applica- ble 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.}}, added-at = {2011-09-28T23:59:32.000+0200}, author = {Lin, Dekang}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2ad747cc96a28b6dba42eef454f2fbe61/dimitargn}, booktitle = {ICML}, citeulike-article-id = {4247158}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dblp.uni-trier.de/rec/bibtex/conf/icml/Lin98}, editor = {Shavlik, Jude W. and Shavlik, Jude W.}, interhash = {a10dea9ffd5eb0372137e838d45878e1}, intrahash = {ad747cc96a28b6dba42eef454f2fbe61}, isbn = {1-55860-556-8}, keywords = {qual web-mining}, pages = {296--304}, posted-at = {2011-09-09 19:49:22}, priority = {3}, publisher = {Morgan Kaufmann}, timestamp = {2011-10-13T17:46:57.000+0200}, title = {{An Information-Theoretic Definition of Similarity}}, url = {http://dblp.uni-trier.de/rec/bibtex/conf/icml/Lin98}, year = 1998 }