info.debatty.java.stringsimilarity

Interface CharacterSubstitutionInterface

public interface CharacterSubstitutionInterface

Used to indicate the cost of character substitution. Cost should always be in [0.0 .. 1.0] For example, in an OCR application, cost('o', 'a') could be 0.4 In a checkspelling application, cost('u', 'i') could be 0.4 because these are next to each other on the keyboard...

Author:

Thibault Debatty

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
double	cost(char c1, char c2) Indicate the cost of substitution c1 and c2.

Method Detail

cost

double cost(char c1,
            char c2)

Indicate the cost of substitution c1 and c2.

Parameters:

c1 - The first character of the substitution.

c2 - The second character of the substitution.

Returns:

The cost in the range [0, 1].