info.debatty.java.stringsimilarity

public Interface CharacterSubstitutionInterface

Used to indicate the cost of character substitution. Cost should always be in [0.0 .. 1.0] For example, in an OCR application, cost('o', 'a') could be 0.4 In a checkspelling application, cost('u', 'i') could be 0.4 because these are next to each other on the keyboard...

Author: Thibault Debatty

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
public double	Returns: The cost in the range [0, 1]. cost(char The first character of the substitution. c1, char The second character of the substitution. c2) Indicate the cost of substitution c1 and c2.

Method Detail

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public double cost(char c1, char c2) Indicate the cost of substitution c1 and c2. Parameters c1:char The first character of the substitution. c2:char The second character of the substitution. Returns:double The cost in the range [0, 1].

cost

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public double cost(char c1, char c2)

Indicate the cost of substitution c1 and c2.

Parameters

c1:char: The first character of the substitution.
c2:char: The second character of the substitution.

Returns:double

The cost in the range [0, 1].