A new text-based w-distance metric to find the perfect match between words

• Main Authors: Ali, M., Jung, L.T., Hosam, O., Wagan, A.A., Shah, R.A., Khayyat, M.
• Format: Article
• Published: IOS Press 2020
• Online Access: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85081537860&doi=10.3233%2fJIFS-179552&partnerID=40&md5=2f8ba723a873404c83134a9f0365fe1b; http://eprints.utp.edu.my/23450/
• Institution: Universiti Teknologi Petronas

The k-NN algorithm is an instance-based learning algorithm which is widely used in the data mining applications. The core engine of the k-NN algorithm is the distance/similarity function. The performance of the k-NN algorithm varies with the selection of distance function. The traditional distance/s...