[KinoSearch] get doc/query similarity

[jack_tanner at yahoo.com]

> From: Marvin Humphrey <marvin at rectangular.com>
> 
> Neat.  Not that this is what you're doing, but I can imagine something  
> like this being used as a supervisory tool for people who get paid for  
> generating content when the primary criteria is volume rather than  
> quality.  Copy-and-paste documents with minor variations would appear  
> tightly grouped in vector space.

Bingo. There are many situations where the authors are generating content under incentives, and where quality may be degraded in favor of volume or some other parameters.

> Please let us know how it goes.

Will do, and thanks for your time and advice. I still think it'd be nice if KS exposed such a similarity computation via the API; it'd be much more efficient that way.




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