edu.northwestern.at.utils.corpuslinguistics
Interface StringSimilarity

public interface StringSimilarity

Interface defining a method for computing string similarity.

The similarity values computed by concrete implementations of this interface must take on values from 0.0 (no similarity) to 1.0 (perfect similarity).

Method Summary

double

similarity(java.lang.String s1, java.lang.String s2) Compute similarity between two strings.

Method Detail

similarity

double similarity(java.lang.String s1,
                  java.lang.String s2)

Compute similarity between two strings.

Parameters:

s1 - First string.

s2 - Second string.

Returns:

Similarity as a value from 0.0 (no similarity) to 1.0 (perfect similarity).