Class LinguisticMetrics

java.lang.Object

org.episteme.social.linguistics.LinguisticMetrics

public final class LinguisticMetrics
extends Object

Phonetic and textual distance metrics for linguistic analysis.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
static Real	levenshteinDistance(String s1, String s2)	Calculates the Levenshtein distance between two strings.

Methods inherited from class Object

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

Method Details

levenshteinDistance

public static Real levenshteinDistance(String s1,
 String s2)

Calculates the Levenshtein distance between two strings. Often used in philology to measure language divergence.

Parameters:

s1 - First string.

s2 - Second string.

Returns:

The edit distance as a Real number.