info.debatty.java.stringsimilarity

Interface StringSimilarityInterface

All Known Implementing Classes:

Cosine, Damerau, Jaccard, JaroWinkler, Levenshtein, LongestCommonSubsequence, NGram, QGram, SorensenDice

public interface StringSimilarityInterface

Author:

tibo

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
double	distance(String s1, String s2) Generally, distance = 1 - similarity.
double	similarity(String s1, String s2)

Method Detail

similarity

double similarity(String s1,
                String s2)

Parameters:

s1 -

s2 -

Returns:

similarity between 0 (completely different) and 1 (s1 = s2)

distance

double distance(String s1,
              String s2)

Generally, distance = 1 - similarity. Some implementations can also provide a method distanceAbsolute

Parameters:

s1 -

s2 -

Returns:

distance between 0 (s1 = s2) and 1 (completely different)