JaroWinkler

java.lang.Object

org.somox.metrics.naming.JaroWinkler

public class JaroWinkler extends Object

The Jaro–Winkler similarity is a string metric measuring an edit distance between two sequences.

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor

Description

JaroWinkler()
Method Summary

Modifier and Type

Method

Description

static double

distance(String s, String t)

The higher the Jaro–Winkler distance for two strings is, the less similar the strings are.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object
clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Details
- JaroWinkler
  
  public JaroWinkler()
Method Details
- distance
  
  public static double distance(String s, String t)
  
  The higher the Jaro–Winkler distance for two strings is, the less similar the strings are. The score is normalized such that 0 means an exact match and 1 means there is no similarity. The original paper actually defined the metric in terms of similarity, so the distance is defined as the inversion of that value (distance = 1 − similarity).
  
  Parameters:
  
  s - the first given string
  
  t - the second given string
  
  Returns:
  
  the distance between s and t