de.spieleck.app.cngram
Interface NGramMetric

All Known Implementing Classes:

C2aMetric, C2Metric, C2xMetric, CosMetric, RawMetric, SqMetric

public interface NGramMetric

A way to measure the distance between two ngram profiles.

Version:

$Revision: 2 $ $Date: 2006-03-27 23:00:21 +0200 (Mo, 27 Mrz 2006) $ $Author: nestefan $

Author:

frank nestel, $Author: nestefan $

Method Summary

double

diff(NGramProfile p1, NGramProfile p2) Return the difference between two profiles.

Method Detail

diff

double diff(NGramProfile p1,
            NGramProfile p2)

Return the difference between two profiles.

Returns:

0.0 profiles considered identical, > 0 otherwise; some implementations are limited to a maximum difference of 1.0.