matchingcoefficient.java

SimMetrics is a Similarity Metric Library, e.g. from edit distance s (Levenshtein, Gotoh, Jaro etc)

/**
 * SimMetrics - SimMetrics is a java library of Similarity or Distance
 * Metrics, e.g. Levenshtein Distance, that provide float based similarity
 * measures between String Data. All metrics return consistant measures
 * rather than unbounded similarity scores.
 *
 * Copyright (C) 2005 Sam Chapman - Open Source Release v1.1
 *
 * Please Feel free to contact me about this library, I would appreciate
 * knowing quickly what you wish to use it for and any criticisms/comments
 * upon the SimMetric library.
 *
 * email:       [e-mail]
 * www:         http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~sam/
 * www:         http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~sam/stringmetrics.html
 *
 * address:     Sam Chapman,
 *              Department of Computer Science,
 *              University of Sheffield,
 *              Sheffield,
 *              S. Yorks,
 *              S1 4DP
 *              United Kingdom,
 *
 * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
 * under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the
 * Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your
 * option) any later version.
 *
 * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
 * WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY
 * or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License
 * for more details.
 *
 * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
 * with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
 * 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
 */

package uk.ac.shef.wit.simmetrics.similaritymetrics;

import uk.ac.shef.wit.simmetrics.tokenisers.InterfaceTokeniser;
import uk.ac.shef.wit.simmetrics.tokenisers.TokeniserWhitespace;

import java.io.Serializable;
import java.util.Vector;

/**
 * Package: uk.ac.shef.wit.simmetrics.similaritymetrics.matchingcoefficient
 * Description: uk.ac.shef.wit.simmetrics.similaritymetrics.matchingcoefficient implements a

 * Date: 02-Apr-2004
 * Time: 14:31:40
 * @author Sam Chapman <a href="http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~sam/">Website</a>, <a href="mailto:[e-mail]">Email</a>.
 * @version 1.1
 */
public final class MatchingCoefficient extends AbstractStringMetric implements Serializable {

    /**
     * a constant for calculating the estimated timing cost.
     */
    private final float ESTIMATEDTIMINGCONST = 2.0e-4f;

    /**
     * private tokeniser for tokenisation of the query strings.
     */
    private final InterfaceTokeniser tokeniser;

    /**
     * constructor - default (empty).
     */
    public MatchingCoefficient() {
        tokeniser = new TokeniserWhitespace();
    }

    /**
     * constructor.
     *
     * @param tokeniserToUse - the tokeniser to use should a different tokeniser be required
     */
    public MatchingCoefficient(final InterfaceTokeniser tokeniserToUse) {
        tokeniser = tokeniserToUse;
    }

    /**
     * returns the string identifier for the metric .
     *
     * @return the string identifier for the metric
     */
    public String getShortDescriptionString() {
        return "MatchingCoefficient";
    }

    /**
     * returns the long string identifier for the metric.
     *
     * @return the long string identifier for the metric
     */
    public String getLongDescriptionString() {
        return "Implements the Matching Coefficient algorithm providing a similarity measure between two strings";
    }

    /**
     * gets a div class xhtml similarity explaining the operation of the metric.
     *
     * @param string1 string 1
     * @param string2 string 2
     *
     * @return a div class html section detailing the metric operation.
     */
    public String getSimilarityExplained(String string1, String string2) {
        //todo this should explain the operation of a given comparison
        return null;  //To change body of implemented methods use File | Settings | File Templates.
    }

    /**
     * gets the estimated time in milliseconds it takes to perform a similarity timing.
     *
     * @param string1 string 1
     * @param string2 string 2
     *
     * @return the estimated time in milliseconds taken to perform the similarity measure
     */
    public float getSimilarityTimingEstimated(final String string1, final String string2) {
        //timed millisecond times with string lengths from 1 + 50 each increment
        //0	0.01	0.03	0.05	0.09	0.12	0.17	0.23	0.3	0.36	0.45	0.53	0.63	0.73	0.85	0.95	1.1	1.21	1.4	1.49	1.69	1.83	2.16	2.18	2.74	2.54	3.46	2.94	3.9	3.38	4.23	3.98	5.49	4.41	5.83	4.95	6.55	5.49	6.77	6.15	7.81	6.55	9.27	7.52	9.23	8.12	11.28	8.83	11.94	9.71	11.94	10.15	12.69	11.28	13.53	11.94	15.62	13.6	16.92	13.53
        final float str1Tokens = tokeniser.tokenize(string1).size();
        final float str2Tokens = tokeniser.tokenize(string2).size();
        return (str2Tokens * str1Tokens) * ESTIMATEDTIMINGCONST;
    }

    /**
     * gets the similarity of the two strings using MatchingCoefficient.
     *
     * @param string1
     * @param string2
     * @return a value between 0-1 of the similarity
     */
    public float getSimilarity(final String string1, final String string2) {
        final Vector str1Tokens = tokeniser.tokenize(string1);
        final Vector str2Tokens = tokeniser.tokenize(string2);

        final int totalPossible = Math.max(str1Tokens.size(), str2Tokens.size());
        return getUnNormalisedSimilarity(string1, string2) / (float) totalPossible;
    }

    /**
     * gets the un-normalised similarity measure of the metric for the given strings.
     *
     * @param string1
     * @param string2
     * @return returns the score of the similarity measure (un-normalised)
     */
    public float getUnNormalisedSimilarity(String string1, String string2) {
        final Vector<String> str1Tokens = tokeniser.tokenize(string1);
        final Vector<String> str2Tokens = tokeniser.tokenize(string2);

        int totalFound = 0;
        for (Object str1Token : str1Tokens) {
            final String sToken = (String) str1Token;
            boolean found = false;
            for (Object str2Token : str2Tokens) {
                final String tToken = (String) str2Token;
                if (sToken.equals(tToken)) {
                    found = true;
                }
            }
            if (found) {
                totalFound++;
            }
        }
        return (float)totalFound;
    }
}