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jaccard-similarity-sentences

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Implements the Jaccard algorithm for finding the similarity coefficient between sentences

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# Measuring similarity of sentences The Jaccard Index itself calculates the similarity/diversity of two sample sets. This module measure the similarity between senteces, based on the words in common (some of the stop words are excluded). [<img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/eaef5aa86949f49e7dc6b9c8c3dd8b233332c9e7">](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaccard_index) You can find more information about the algorithm on [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaccard_index) ## Example **Input**: "This is one sentence." "This is another sentence." **Result**: 0.66% ##Pre-installation This module is build on top of the ["Natural" module](https://github.com/NaturalNode/natural) - library for natural language processing. You need to run: ``` npm install natural ``` ** ##Installation ##Usage # License MIT