Table 1 Deficiencies of some popular measures according to the preferable properties for a similarity measure
From: Pairwise document similarity measure based on present term set
Measure | Property 1 | Property 3 | Property 4 | Property 7 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Cosine |  | ✗ |  | ✗ |
Euclidean | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
Manhattan | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
Pair-wise adaptive |  | ✗ |  | ✗ |
Chebyshev | ✗ |  | ✗ | ✗ |
EJ |  | ✗ |  | ✗ |
IT-SIM |  | ✗ |  | ✗ |
SMTP |  |  |  | ✗ |