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Implementation of various string similarity and distance algorithms: Levenshtein, Jaro-winkler, n-Gram, Q-Gram, Jaccard index, Longest Common Subsequence edit distance, cosine similarity...

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/*
 * The MIT License
 *
 * Copyright 2015 Thibault Debatty.
 *
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package info.debatty.java.stringsimilarity;

import info.debatty.java.utils.SparseBooleanVector;

/**
 * Set representation of a string (list of occuring shingles/n-grams), without
 * cardinality.
 * @author Thibault Debatty
 */
public class StringSet {
    private final SparseBooleanVector vector;
    private final KShingling ks;
    
    public StringSet(SparseBooleanVector vector, KShingling ks) {
        this.vector = vector;
        this.ks = ks;
    }
    
    
    public double jaccardSimilarity(StringSet other) throws Exception {
        if (this.ks != other.ks) {
            throw new Exception("Profiles were not created using the same kshingling object!");
        }
        
        return this.vector.jaccard(other.vector);
    }
    
    public double sorensenDiceSimilarity(StringSet other) throws Exception {
        if (this.ks != other.ks) {
            throw new Exception("Profiles were not created using the same kshingling object!");
        }
        
        return 2 * this.vector.intersection(other.vector) / (this.vector.size() + other.vector.size());
    }
}