com.wcohen.secondstring
Class TokenFelligiSunter

java.lang.Object
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  +--com.wcohen.secondstring.AbstractStringDistance
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        +--com.wcohen.secondstring.AbstractStatisticalTokenDistance
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              +--com.wcohen.secondstring.TokenFelligiSunter

All Implemented Interfaces:

StringDistance

public class TokenFelligiSunter

extends AbstractStatisticalTokenDistance

Highly simplified model of Felligi-Sunter's method 1, applied to tokens.

Field Summary

Fields inherited from class com.wcohen.secondstring.AbstractStatisticalTokenDistance

collectionSize, documentFrequency, tokenizer, totalTokenCount

Constructor Summary

TokenFelligiSunter()

TokenFelligiSunter(Tokenizer tokenizer, double mismatchFactor)

Method Summary

java.lang.String	explainScore(StringWrapper s, StringWrapper t) Explain how the distance was computed.
static void	main(java.lang.String[] argv)
StringWrapper	prepare(java.lang.String s) Preprocess a string by finding tokens and giving them appropriate weights
double	score(StringWrapper s, StringWrapper t) This method needs to be implemented by subclasses.
void	setMismatchFactor(double d)
void	setMismatchFactor(java.lang.Double d)
java.lang.String	toString()

Methods inherited from class com.wcohen.secondstring.AbstractStatisticalTokenDistance

accumulateStatistics, getDocumentFrequency

Methods inherited from class com.wcohen.secondstring.AbstractStringDistance

doMain, explainScore, score

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

TokenFelligiSunter

public TokenFelligiSunter(Tokenizer tokenizer,
                          double mismatchFactor)

TokenFelligiSunter

public TokenFelligiSunter()

Method Detail

setMismatchFactor

public void setMismatchFactor(double d)

setMismatchFactor

public void setMismatchFactor(java.lang.Double d)

score

public double score(StringWrapper s,
                    StringWrapper t)

Description copied from class: AbstractStringDistance

This method needs to be implemented by subclasses.

Specified by:

score in interface StringDistance

Specified by:

score in class AbstractStringDistance

prepare

public StringWrapper prepare(java.lang.String s)

Preprocess a string by finding tokens and giving them appropriate weights

Specified by:

prepare in interface StringDistance

Overrides:

prepare in class AbstractStringDistance

explainScore

public java.lang.String explainScore(StringWrapper s,
                                     StringWrapper t)

Explain how the distance was computed. In the output, the tokens in S and T are listed, and the common tokens are marked with an asterisk.

Specified by:

explainScore in interface StringDistance

Specified by:

explainScore in class AbstractStringDistance

toString

public java.lang.String toString()

Overrides:

toString in class java.lang.Object

main

public static void main(java.lang.String[] argv)