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024
025package org.cleartk.util.similarity;
026
027/**
028 * <br>
029 * Copyright (c) 2011, Regents of the University of Colorado <br>
030 * All rights reserved.
031 * 
032 * @author Philip Ogren
033 *         <p>
034 * 
035 *         Portions of this code were derived from pseudocode located at
036 *         http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levenshtein_distance
037 * 
038 * 
039 */
040
041public class Levenshtein {
042
043  public static float similarity(String string1, String string2) {
044    if (string1.length() == 0 && string2.length() == 0) {
045      return 1.0f;
046    }
047    int editDistance = editDistance(string1, string2);
048
049    float similarity = (float) editDistance / (string1.length() + string2.length());
050    return 1 - Math.min(similarity, 1.0f);
051  }
052
053  public static int editDistance(String string1, String string2) {
054    int rowCount = string1.length() + 1;
055    int columnCount = string2.length() + 1;
056
057    int[][] matrix = new int[rowCount][columnCount];
058
059    for (int rowIndex = 0; rowIndex < rowCount; rowIndex++) {
060      matrix[rowIndex][0] = rowIndex;
061    }
062
063    for (int columnIndex = 0; columnIndex < columnCount; columnIndex++) {
064      matrix[0][columnIndex] = columnIndex;
065    }
066
067    for (int rowIndex = 1; rowIndex < matrix.length; rowIndex++) {
068      for (int columnIndex = 1; columnIndex < matrix[0].length; columnIndex++) {
069        char char1 = string1.charAt(rowIndex - 1);
070        char char2 = string2.charAt(columnIndex - 1);
071        if (char1 == char2) {
072          matrix[rowIndex][columnIndex] = matrix[rowIndex - 1][columnIndex - 1];
073        } else {
074          int left = matrix[rowIndex][columnIndex - 1];
075          int up = matrix[rowIndex - 1][columnIndex];
076          int leftUp = matrix[rowIndex - 1][columnIndex - 1];
077          int distance = Math.min(left, up);
078          distance = Math.min(distance, leftUp);
079          matrix[rowIndex][columnIndex] = distance + 1;
080        }
081      }
082    }
083
084    return matrix[rowCount - 1][columnCount - 1];
085  }
086
087}