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by _t89y 827 days ago
It is meaningless to talk about cosine similarity of sentences, or words, at all. Choose whatever mapping you want. You'll still be in Firth Mode.
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It's meaningful to talk about cosine similarity for anything that you can quantify in ways such that the cosine similarity reflects a measure you care about. Same applies for any function. If it works, it's meaningful to talk about it whether or not it has a reasonable interpretation beyond that.
Uh oh. LOL. Got some angry Firthers out there.