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[jira] [Comment Edited] (TEXT-21) Have a clear distinction between Edit Distance, String Similarity, Score, Metric, etc

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Bruno P. Kinoshita edited comment on TEXT-21 at 10/12/16 7:59 AM:
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Some useful papers on the topic, and other resources too.

* [A Comparison of Personal Name Matching: Techniques and Practical Issues (PDF)|http://users.cecs.anu.edu.au/~Peter.Christen/publications/tr-cs-06-02.pdf]
* [A Comparison of String Distance Metrics for Name-Matching Tasks (PDF)|http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~wcohen/postscript/ijcai-ws-2003.pdf]
* [Edit distance on Wikipedia|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edit_distance]


was (Author: kinow):
Some useful papers on the topic, and other resources too.

* [A Comparison of Personal Name Matching: Techniques and Practical Issues (PDF)|http://users.cecs.anu.edu.au/~Peter.Christen/publications/tr-cs-06-02.pdf]
* [A Comparison of String Distance Metrics for Name-Matching Tasks (PDF)|http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~wcohen/postscript/ijcai-ws-2003.pdf]
* [Edit distance on Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edit_distance)

> Have a clear distinction between Edit Distance, String Similarity, Score, Metric, etc
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>
>                 Key: TEXT-21
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TEXT-21
>             Project: Commons Text
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>            Reporter: Bruno P. Kinoshita
>            Assignee: Bruno P. Kinoshita
>
> From LANG-1269.
> A user reported a nomenclature issue in [lang], which occurs in [text] as well.
> Currently we have an interface called EditDistance, with the following implementations:
> * CosineDistance
> * HammingDistance
> * JaroWrinklerDistance
> * and LevenshteinDistance
> JaroWrinkler is actually a similarity score, and not a distance. We have other classes in the oact.similarity package too.
> * CosineSimilarity
> * FuzzyScore
> We need to provide users a clear distinction on what we call an edit distance, similarity or score.



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