W-shingling

W-shingling is a way of breaking up a long piece of text into smaller pieces called "shingles". Shingles are like puzzle pieces, and when you put all the shingles together, they make the longer piece of text. W-shingling helps make it easier to compare two texts for similarities. First, you need to decide how many words you want each shingle to have (usually this is around 3 or 4). Then, you take the long text and break it up into shingles of that many words. For example, if you have a sentence that is 10 words long and you want 3-word shingles, you would break it up into 4 shingles that each had 3 words in them.