Choosing the right corpus to build a TF IDF Vectorizer used for comparing the similarity of two strings I am working on evaluating when a pair of string objects can be considered equal (e.g. given that we are talking about journals, is "international journal of air and water pollution" the same of "air and water pollution"?) and I was wondering what is the proper corpus to use to build a TF IDF vectorizer.

I am currently using as corpus all the distinct values of these strings belonging to the same type (in this example all the strings referring to journals). Is this a valid approach? Why? What could be other valid approaches?
Word Mover’s Distance (WMD) is an algorithm for finding the distance between pairs of strings. It is based on word embeddings (e.g., word2vec) which encoded the semantic meaning of words into dense vectors.


  The WMD distance measures the dissimilarity between two text documents as the minimum amount of distance that the embedded words of one document need to "travel" to reach the embedded words of another document.


For example:


Source: "From Word Embeddings To Document Distances" Paper