Interface StringSimilarity

All Superinterfaces:

Serializable

All Known Subinterfaces:

NormalizedStringSimilarity

All Known Implementing Classes:

Cosine, Jaccard, JaroWinkler, NormalizedLevenshtein, RatcliffObershelp, SorensenDice

public interface StringSimilarity
extends Serializable

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
double	similarity(String s1, String s2)	Compute and return a measure of similarity between 2 strings.

Method Details

similarity

double similarity(String s1,
 String s2)

Compute and return a measure of similarity between 2 strings.

Parameters:

s1 -

s2 -

Returns:

similarity (0 means both strings are completely different)