From 8d6b1cab2c168c305c7ef15deb91c3f1d59aca7e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Henry Dowd <henrydowd@outlook.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 23:25:04 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Testing parsing and jaccard similarity in notebooks

---
 notebooks/01_data_exploration.ipynb     | 73 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
 notebooks/02_baseline_experiments.ipynb | 54 ++++++++++++++++++
 notebooks/03_semantic_methods.ipynb     | 15 +++++
 3 files changed, 142 insertions(+)

diff --git a/notebooks/01_data_exploration.ipynb b/notebooks/01_data_exploration.ipynb
index e69de29..07cffdd 100644
--- a/notebooks/01_data_exploration.ipynb
+++ b/notebooks/01_data_exploration.ipynb
@@ -0,0 +1,73 @@
+{
+ "cells": [
+  {
+   "metadata": {},
+   "cell_type": "markdown",
+   "source": "Keep punctuation for direct copy detection but remove for semantic/keyword based methods",
+   "id": "1c26616777253f10"
+  },
+  {
+   "metadata": {
+    "ExecuteTime": {
+     "end_time": "2025-11-18T23:01:17.888318Z",
+     "start_time": "2025-11-18T23:01:16.494987Z"
+    }
+   },
+   "cell_type": "code",
+   "source": [
+    "import spacy\n",
+    "\n",
+    "nlp = spacy.load(\"en_core_web_md\")  # Can swap for large model if required\n",
+    "\n",
+    "test_sentences = [\n",
+    "    \"The cat sat on the mat.\",\n",
+    "    \"On the mat, the cat was sitting.\",\n",
+    "    \"A completely different sentence about something else.\"\n",
+    "]\n",
+    "\n",
+    "for sent in test_sentences:\n",
+    "    doc = nlp(sent)\n",
+    "    print(f\"Sentence: {sent}\")\n",
+    "    print(f\"Tokens: {[token.text for token in doc]}\")\n",
+    "    print(\"---\")\n",
+    "\n"
+   ],
+   "id": "e003ac06a58cfbb4",
+   "outputs": [
+    {
+     "name": "stdout",
+     "output_type": "stream",
+     "text": [
+      "Sentence: The cat sat on the mat.\n",
+      "Tokens: ['The', 'cat', 'sat', 'on', 'the', 'mat', '.']\n",
+      "---\n",
+      "Sentence: On the mat, the cat was sitting.\n",
+      "Tokens: ['On', 'the', 'mat', ',', 'the', 'cat', 'was', 'sitting', '.']\n",
+      "---\n",
+      "Sentence: A completely different sentence about something else.\n",
+      "Tokens: ['A', 'completely', 'different', 'sentence', 'about', 'something', 'else', '.']\n",
+      "---\n"
+     ]
+    }
+   ],
+   "execution_count": 1
+  },
+  {
+   "metadata": {},
+   "cell_type": "code",
+   "outputs": [],
+   "execution_count": null,
+   "source": "",
+   "id": "83fc18c9de2e354"
+  }
+ ],
+ "metadata": {
+  "kernelspec": {
+   "name": "python3",
+   "language": "python",
+   "display_name": "Python 3 (ipykernel)"
+  }
+ },
+ "nbformat": 4,
+ "nbformat_minor": 5
+}
diff --git a/notebooks/02_baseline_experiments.ipynb b/notebooks/02_baseline_experiments.ipynb
index e69de29..34f5390 100644
--- a/notebooks/02_baseline_experiments.ipynb
+++ b/notebooks/02_baseline_experiments.ipynb
@@ -0,0 +1,54 @@
+{
+ "cells": [
+  {
+   "metadata": {
+    "ExecuteTime": {
+     "end_time": "2025-11-18T23:15:35.056834Z",
+     "start_time": "2025-11-18T23:15:35.051218Z"
+    }
+   },
+   "cell_type": "code",
+   "source": [
+    "def jaccard_similarity(sent1, sent2):\n",
+    "    # make lowercase and split into words\n",
+    "    words1 = set(sent1.lower().split())\n",
+    "    words2 = set(sent2.lower().split())\n",
+    "    intersection = words1.intersection(words2)\n",
+    "    union = words1.union(words2)\n",
+    "    return float(len(intersection)) / len(union) if union else 0.0\n",
+    "\n",
+    "test_pairs = [\n",
+    "    (\"The cat sat on the mat.\", \"The cat sat on the mat.\"),     # Copy\n",
+    "    (\"The cat sat on the mat.\", \"On the mat sat the cat.\"),     # Same words rearranged\n",
+    "    (\"The cat sat on the mat.\", \"The dog ran in the park\")      # Different\n",
+    "]\n",
+    "\n",
+    "for sent1, sent2 in test_pairs:\n",
+    "    similarity = jaccard_similarity(sent1, sent2)\n",
+    "    print(f\"'{sent1}' vs '{sent2}': {similarity:.3f}\") # 3 decimal places\n"
+   ],
+   "id": "e60d024e969254a",
+   "outputs": [
+    {
+     "name": "stdout",
+     "output_type": "stream",
+     "text": [
+      "'The cat sat on the mat.' vs 'The cat sat on the mat.': 1.000\n",
+      "'The cat sat on the mat.' vs 'On the mat sat the cat.': 0.429\n",
+      "'The cat sat on the mat.' vs 'The dog ran in the park': 0.111\n"
+     ]
+    }
+   ],
+   "execution_count": 7
+  }
+ ],
+ "metadata": {
+  "kernelspec": {
+   "name": "python3",
+   "language": "python",
+   "display_name": "Python 3 (ipykernel)"
+  }
+ },
+ "nbformat": 4,
+ "nbformat_minor": 5
+}
diff --git a/notebooks/03_semantic_methods.ipynb b/notebooks/03_semantic_methods.ipynb
index e69de29..08f9bd0 100644
--- a/notebooks/03_semantic_methods.ipynb
+++ b/notebooks/03_semantic_methods.ipynb
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+{
+ "cells": [
+  {
+   "metadata": {},
+   "cell_type": "code",
+   "outputs": [],
+   "execution_count": null,
+   "source": "",
+   "id": "8a3c4314a90086fe"
+  }
+ ],
+ "metadata": {},
+ "nbformat": 4,
+ "nbformat_minor": 5
+}