Package com.google.refine.clustering.knn

Class VicinoDistance

java.lang.Object

com.google.refine.clustering.knn.VicinoDistance

All Implemented Interfaces:

SimilarityDistance

public class VicinoDistance
extends Object
implements SimilarityDistance

Wrapper to expose a similarity function from the Vicino library.

Author:

Antonin Delpeuch

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor	Description
VicinoDistance(edu.mit.simile.vicino.distances.Distance d)

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
double	compute(String a, String b)	Compute the distance between two strings.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Details

VicinoDistance

public VicinoDistance(edu.mit.simile.vicino.distances.Distance d)

Method Details

compute

public double compute(String a,
 String b)

Description copied from interface: SimilarityDistance

Compute the distance between two strings. This should return 0 when the two arguments are equal, and rise as their differences increase.

Specified by:

compute in interface SimilarityDistance