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nounDice coefficient (plural Dice coefficients)
plural Dice coefficients
- Synonym of Sørensen-Dice coefficient.
The Dice coefficient normalizes for length by dividing by the total number of non-zero entries. We multiply by 2 so that we get a measure that ranges from 0.0 to 1.0 with 1.0 indicating identical vectors.
1991, Christopher D. Manning, Hinrich Schütze, Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing, Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, →ISBN, page 299Synonyms: Sørensen-Dice coefficient
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nounSynonym of Sørensen-Dice coefficient.
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