Re: [TEXT] Distance vs. Metric vs. Similarity

2015-04-17 Thread Bruno P. Kinoshita
: Re: [TEXT] Distance vs. Metric vs. Similarity 2015-04-16 13:38 GMT+02:00 Bruno P. Kinoshita : > Hi Benedikt > > >Very nice! Maybe we can even come up with a generic class that calculates > a>distance based on a similarity score. > Hmmm, that's a good idea. We probably

Re: [TEXT] Distance vs. Metric vs. Similarity

2015-04-16 Thread Bruno P. Kinoshita
index and overall structure. ThanksBruno From: Benedikt Ritter To: Commons Developers List ; Bruno P. Kinoshita Sent: Thursday, April 16, 2015 11:52 PM Subject: Re: [TEXT] Distance vs. Metric vs. Similarity 2015-04-16 13:38 GMT+02:00 Bruno P. Kinoshita : > Hi Benedikt >

Re: [TEXT] Distance vs. Metric vs. Similarity

2015-04-16 Thread Benedikt Ritter
ditDistance, and only edit > > distances implement it > > > > TIA > > Bruno > > > > [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SANDBOX-488 > > [2] > > > https://git1-us-west.apache.org/repos/asf?p=commons-text.git;a=tree;f=src/main/java/org/apache/commons/text/similarity;h=a2de9f0196

Re: [TEXT] Distance vs. Metric vs. Similarity

2015-04-16 Thread Bruno P. Kinoshita
now anyway. ThanksBruno [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SANDBOX-495 From: Benedikt Ritter To: Commons Developers List Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2015 11:03 PM Subject: Re: [TEXT] Distance vs. Metric vs. Similarity Hi Bruno 2015-04-15 12:14 GMT+02:00 Bruno P. Ki

Re: [TEXT] Distance vs. Metric vs. Similarity

2015-04-15 Thread Benedikt Ritter
- > *From:* Benedikt Ritter > *To:* Commons Developers List ; Bruno P. > Kinoshita > *Sent:* Friday, December 19, 2014 2:35 AM > > *Subject:* Re: [TEXT] Distance vs. Metric vs. Similarity > > > > 2014-12-14 23:10 GMT+01:00 Bruno P. Kinoshita > : > > >

Re: [TEXT] Distance vs. Metric vs. Similarity

2015-04-15 Thread Bruno P. Kinoshita
ecember 19, 2014 2:35 AM Subject: Re: [TEXT] Distance vs. Metric vs. Similarity 2014-12-14 23:10 GMT+01:00 Bruno P. Kinoshita : > Sounds good, although I'm not sure I understand where you are going with> the > marker interface. What is it's purpose? Let's then keep the Str

Re: [TEXT] Distance vs. Metric vs. Similarity

2014-12-18 Thread Benedikt Ritter
ingmetric > > > > From: Benedikt Ritter > To: Commons Developers List ; Bruno P. Kinoshita > > Sent: Sunday, December 14, 2014 6:45 PM > Subject: Re: [TEXT] Distance vs. Metric vs. Similarity > > Hi Bruna, > > > > 2014-12-14 21:37 GMT+01:00 Bruno P

Re: [TEXT] Distance vs. Metric vs. Similarity

2014-12-14 Thread Emmanuel Bourg
Le 14/12/2014 21:08, Benedikt Ritter a écrit : > Distance and similarity seem to be just opposites of the same thing. A > great distance indicates a small similarity between two character > sequences. Metric feels like it's something more general, but I'm not sure. > > WDYT? Return the inverse (

Re: [TEXT] Distance vs. Metric vs. Similarity

2014-12-14 Thread Bruno P. Kinoshita
are. WDYT? CheersBruno  [1] https://github.com/rockymadden/stringmetric From: Benedikt Ritter To: Commons Developers List ; Bruno P. Kinoshita Sent: Sunday, December 14, 2014 6:45 PM Subject: Re: [TEXT] Distance vs. Metric vs. Similarity Hi Bruna, 2014-12-14 21:37 GMT+01:00 Bruno

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2014-12-14 Thread Benedikt Ritter
rity score. An algorithm returning a distance should return a higher number for higher distances. Benedikt > All the best,Bruno > > > From: Benedikt Ritter > To: Commons Developers List > Sent: Sunday, December 14, 2014 6:20 PM > Subject: Re: [TEXT] Distance

Re: [TEXT] Distance vs. Metric vs. Similarity

2014-12-14 Thread Bruno P. Kinoshita
imilarity? I'm in favor of dropping score and similarity, and adopting distance in the package, classes and javadocs, as it is used in other tools (e.g. Solr, Talend, Informatica IIR, etc). All the best,Bruno From: Benedikt Ritter To: Commons Developers List Sent: Sunday, December

Re: [TEXT] Distance vs. Metric vs. Similarity

2014-12-14 Thread Benedikt Ritter
2014-12-14 21:08 GMT+01:00 Benedikt Ritter : > > Hi, > > currently the wording in commons text is a bit confusing. We have the > three terms: > > - distance > - similarity > - metric > > Distance and similarity seem to be just opposites of the same thing. A > great distance indicates a small simila

[TEXT] Distance vs. Metric vs. Similarity

2014-12-14 Thread Benedikt Ritter
Hi, currently the wording in commons text is a bit confusing. We have the three terms: - distance - similarity - metric Distance and similarity seem to be just opposites of the same thing. A great distance indicates a small similarity between two character sequences. Metric feels like it's somet