cbr.similarity
Class RankSimilarityMetric

java.lang.Object
  cbr.similarity.RankSimilarityMetric

All Implemented Interfaces:

SimilarityMetric

public class RankSimilarityMetric
extends Object
implements SimilarityMetric

Very simple similarity metric that compares two alphabetical feature values Returns 1.0 if the characters are the same, otherwise returns 0.0 is they are different

Constructor Summary

RankSimilarityMetric()

Method Summary

double

compare(Feature f1, Feature f2) Compares two characters and assigns a similarity value.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

equals, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

RankSimilarityMetric

public RankSimilarityMetric()

Method Detail

compare

public double compare(Feature f1,
                      Feature f2)

Compares two characters and assigns a similarity value.

Specified by:

compare in interface SimilarityMetric

Parameters:

f1 - a feature that holds a character as it's value

f2 - a feature that holds a character as it's value

Returns:

double Returns 1.0 if the characters are the same, otherwise returns 0.0 is they are different