StringSimilarityMeasure Class Reference

Abstract interface for a class implementing string (Word) similarity measure. More...

#include <SimilarityMeasures.h>

Inheritance diagram for StringSimilarityMeasure:

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Public Member Functions
virtual double	measure (const Word &w1, const Word &w2) const =0
	Returns a distance (measure) between two words.

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Detailed Description

Abstract interface for a class implementing string (Word) similarity measure.

Definition at line 87 of file SimilarityMeasures.h.

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Member Function Documentation

virtual double StringSimilarityMeasure::measure	(	const Word &	w1,
		const Word &	w2
	)			const [pure virtual]

Returns a distance (measure) between two words.

Parameters:

	w1	- the first word
	w2	- the second word

Returns:

the distance. It is assumed that greater values indicate less similarities.

Implemented in HammingDistance, HammingDistanceCyclic, SubwordHammingDistanceCyclic, EditingDistance, and SubwordEditingDistanceCyclic.

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The documentation for this class was generated from the following file:

• StringSimilarity/include/SimilarityMeasures.h