de.uni_mannheim.informatik.dws.winter.similarity.string

Class JaccardOnNGramsSimilarity

java.lang.Object

de.uni_mannheim.informatik.dws.winter.similarity.SimilarityMeasure<String>

de.uni_mannheim.informatik.dws.winter.similarity.string.JaccardOnNGramsSimilarity

All Implemented Interfaces:

Serializable

public class JaccardOnNGramsSimilarity
extends SimilarityMeasure<String>

Calculates Jaccard similarity on n-grams, which are created from the values

Author:

Oliver Lehmberg (oli@dwslab.de)

See Also:

Serialized Form

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
JaccardOnNGramsSimilarity(int n)

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
double	calculate(String first, String second) Calculates the similarity of first and second

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

JaccardOnNGramsSimilarity

public JaccardOnNGramsSimilarity(int n)

Method Detail

calculate

public double calculate(String first,
                        String second)

Description copied from class: SimilarityMeasure

Calculates the similarity of first and second

Specified by:

calculate in class SimilarityMeasure<String>

Parameters:

first - the first record (must not be null)

second - the second record (must not be null)

Returns:

the similarity of first and second