The earth mover's distance as a semantic measure for document similarity.

@inproceedings{wan-2005-earth, author = {Xiaojun Wan and Yuxin Peng}, editor = {Otthein Herzog and Hans-J\"{o}rg Schek and Norbert Fuhr and Abdur Chowdhury and Wilfried Teiken}, title = {{The earth mover's distance as a semantic measure for document similarity}}, booktitle = {{Proceedings of the 2005 ACM CIKM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Bremen, Germany, October 31 - November 5, 2005}}, pages = {301--302}, publisher = {ACM}, year = {2005}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/1099554.1099637}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1145/1099554.1099637} }