[GitHub] kinow commented on a change in pull request #103: TEXT-126: Adding Sorensen-Dice similarity algoritham

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kinow commented on a change in pull request #103: TEXT-126: Adding Sorensen-Dice similarity algoritham
URL: https://github.com/apache/commons-text/pull/103#discussion_r261851664
 
 

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+/*
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+ */
+package org.apache.commons.text.similarity;
+
+import java.util.HashSet;
+import java.util.Set;
+
+/**
+ * A similarity algorithm indicating the percentage of matched characters
+ * between two character sequences.
+ *
+ * <p>
+ * The Sørensen–Dice coefficient is a statistic used for comparing the
+ * similarity of two samples. It was independently developed by the botanists
+ * Thorvald Sørensen and Lee Raymond Dice, who published in 1948 and 1945
+ * respectively. The index is known by several other names, especially
+ * Sørensen–Dice index, Sørensen index and Dice's coefficient. Other variations
+ * include the "similarity coefficient" or "index", such as Dice similarity
+ * coefficient (DSC).
+ * </p>
+ *
+ * <p>
+ * This implementation is based on the Sørensen–Dice similarity algorithm from
+ * <a href=
+ * "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%B8rensen%E2%80%93Dice_coefficient">
+ * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%B8rensen%E2%80%93Dice_coefficient</a>.
+ *
+ *
+ * </p>
+ *
+ * @since 1.7
+ */
+public class SorensenDicesSimilarity implements SimilarityScore<Double> {
+
+    /**
+     *
+     * <pre>
+     * similarity.apply("", "")                     = 1.0
+     * similarity.apply("foo", "foo")               = 1.0
+     * similarity.apply("foo", "foo ")              = 0.8
+     * similarity.apply("foo", "foo ")              = 0.66
+     * similarity.apply("foo", " foo ")             = 0.66
+     * similarity.apply("foo", " foo")              = 0.66
+     * similarity.apply("", "a")                    = 0.0
+     * similarity.apply("aaapppp", "")              = 0.0
+     * similarity.apply("frog", "fog")              = 0.4
+     * similarity.apply("fly", "ant")               = 0.0
+     * similarity.apply("elephant", "hippo")        = 0.0
+     * similarity.apply("hippo", "elephant")        = 0.0
+     * similarity.apply("hippo", "zzzzzzzz")        = 0.0
+     * similarity.apply("hello", "hallo")           = 0.5
+     * similarity.apply("ABC Corporation", "ABC Corp") = 0.7
+     * similarity.apply("D N H Enterprises Inc", "D &amp; H Enterprises, Inc.") = 0.74
+     * similarity.apply("My Gym Children's Fitness Center", "My Gym. Childrens Fitness") = 0.81
+     * similarity.apply("PENNSYLVANIA", "PENNCISYLVNIA") = 0.69
+     * </pre>
+     *
+     * @param left  the first CharSequence, must not be null
+     * @param right the second CharSequence, must not be null
+     * @return result similarity
+     * @throws IllegalArgumentException if either CharSequence input is {@code null}
+     */
+    @Override
+    public Double apply(final CharSequence left, final CharSequence right) {
+
+        if (left == null || right == null) {
+            throw new IllegalArgumentException("CharSequences must not be null");
+        }
+
+        if (left.equals(right)) {
+            return 1d;
+        }
+
+        if (left.length() == 0 || right.length() == 0) {
+            return 0d;
+        }
+
+        Set<String> nLeft = createBigrams(left);
+        Set<String> nRight = createBigrams(right);
+
+        final int total = nLeft.size() + nRight.size();
+        nLeft.retainAll(nRight);
+        final int intersection = nLeft.size();
+
+        return (2.0d * intersection) / total;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Method for creating Bigrams, bigrams are nothing but set of two consecutive
+     * characters.
 
 Review comment:
   Maybe "Method for creating bigrams - two consecutive characters. Returns a set of bigrams."? WDYT? Just the comma looked out of place for me, but am nit-picking here. Feel free to ignore this comment if you prefer :slightly_smiling_face: 

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