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  1. Commons Text
  2. TEXT-21

Have a clear distinction between Edit Distance, String Similarity, Score, Metric, etc

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    • Improvement
    • Status: Closed
    • Major
    • Resolution: Implemented
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      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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          Bug - A problem which impairs or prevents the functions of the product. LANG-1269 Wrong name or result of StringUtils::getJaroWinklerDistance

          • Minor - Minor loss of function, or other problem where easy workaround is present.
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              chtompki Rob Tompkins
              kinow Bruno P. Kinoshita
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