Text Similarities : Estimate the degree of similarity between two texts

Note to the reader: Python code is shared at the end

We always need to compute the similarity in meaning between texts.

• Search engines need to model the relevance of a document to a query, beyond the overlap in words between the two. For instance, question-and-answer sites such as Quora or Stackoverflow need to determine whether a question has already been asked before.
• In legal matters, text similarity task allow to mitigate risks on a new contract, based on…