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The search box at the bottom of the page does a pretty good job, given a title :) Depends on what you mean by "similar submissions", though. Similar titles (s
by notduncansmith 12y ago
The search box at the bottom of the page does a pretty good job, given a title :)
Depends on what you mean by "similar submissions", though. Similar titles (similar in topic? Sentiment? Levenshtein distance?), identical links, similar linked content (similar how?), etc.
- ColinWright 12y agoFrequently you need to pick a single word, or perhaps two, from the title in order to find related articles. Using something like TF-IDF on submission titles (perhaps after mods have "normalized" them) then works well on the search. Then you want to make sure the articles really are the same, so you need to download the article, extract the relevant text, and do a similar sort of comparison. Or just eyeball it. Or allow for mistakes. Then there's the question of deciding whether it's worth having a cross-reference at all. Heuristics about number of comments, age of submission, etc, might be relevant. In general, it's complicated.