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package org.simmetrics.metrics;

import static com.google.common.collect.Sets.intersection;
import static java.lang.Math.sqrt;

import java.util.Set;

import org.simmetrics.SetMetric;

/**
 * Calculates the Tanimoto similarity coefficient over two sets. The
 * similarity is defined as the cosine of the angle between the sets
 * expressed as sparse vectors.
 * 
 * 
 * similarity(a,b) = a·b / (||a|| * ||b||)
 * 
 * 

 * The cosine similarity is identical to the Tanimoto coefficient, but unlike
 * Tanimoto the occurrence (cardinality) of an entry is taken into account. E.g.
 * {@code [hello, world]} and {@code [hello, world, hello, world]} would be
 * identical when compared with Tanimoto but are dissimilar when the cosine
 * similarity is used.
 * 
 * This class is immutable and thread-safe.
 * 
 * @see CosineSimilarity
 * @see Wikipedia
 *      Cosine similarity
 * 
 * @param 
 *            type of the token
 */
public final class TanimotoCoefficient implements SetMetric {

	@Override
	public float compare(Set a, Set b) {

		if (a.isEmpty() && b.isEmpty()) {
			return 1.0f;
		}

		if (a.isEmpty() || b.isEmpty()) {
			return 0.0f;
		}
		
		// Smaller set first for performance improvement. 
		// See: note at Sets.intersection
		if(a.size() > b.size()){
			final Set swap = a; a = b; b = swap;
		}
		
		// a·b / (||a|| * ||b||)
		// Dot product of two binary vectors is the intersection of two sets
		// Magnitude of a binary vectors is square root of its size.
		return (float) (intersection(a, b).size() / (sqrt(a.size()) * sqrt(b.size())));
	}

	@Override
	public String toString() {
		return "TanimotoCoefficient";
	}

}