FuzzyQuery使用中有一个计算edit distance的函数,在类FuzzyTermEnum中,如下:
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* Compute Levenshtein distance
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/**
* <p>Similarity returns a number that is 1.0f or less (including negative numbers)
* based on how similar the Term is compared to a target term. It returns
* exactly 0.0f when
* <pre>
* editDistance > maximumEditDistance</pre>
* Otherwise it returns:
* <pre>
* 1 - (editDistance / length)</pre>
* where length is the length of the shortest term (text or target) including a
* prefix that are identical and editDistance is the Levenshtein distance for
* the two words.</p>
*
* <p>Embedded within this algorithm is a fail-fast Levenshtein distance
* algorithm. The fail-fast algorithm differs from the standard Levenshtein
* distance algorithm in that it is aborted if it is discovered that the
* minimum distance between the words is greater than some threshold.
*
* <p>To calculate the maximum distance threshold we use the following formula:
* <pre>
* (1 - minimumSimilarity) * length</pre>
* where length is the shortest term including any prefix that is not part of the
* similarity comparison. This formula was derived by solving for what maximum value
* of distance returns false for the following statements:
* <pre>
* similarity = 1 - ((float)distance / (float) (prefixLength + Math.min(textlen, targetlen)));
* return (similarity > minimumSimilarity);</pre>
* where distance is the Levenshtein distance for the two words.
* </p>
* <p>Levenshtein distance (also known as edit distance) is a measure of similarity
* between two strings where the distance is measured as the number of character
* deletions, insertions or substitutions required to transform one string to
* the other string.
* @param target the target word or phrase
* @return the similarity, 0.0 or less indicates that it matches less than the required
* threshold and 1.0 indicates that the text and target are identical
*/
private float similarity(final String target) {
final int m = target.length();
final int n = text.length;
if (n == 0) {
//we don't have anything to compare. That means if we just add
//the letters for m we get the new word
return prefix.length() == 0 ? 0.0f : 1.0f - ((float) m / prefix.length());
}
if (m == 0) {
return prefix.length() == 0 ? 0.0f : 1.0f - ((float) n / prefix.length());
}
final int maxDistance = calculateMaxDistance(m);
if (maxDistance < Math.abs(m-n)) {
//just adding the characters of m to n or vice-versa results in
//too many edits
//for example "pre" length is 3 and "prefixes" length is 8. We can see that
//given this optimal circumstance, the edit distance cannot be less than 5.
//which is 8-3 or more precisely Math.abs(3-8).
//if our maximum edit distance is 4, then we can discard this word
//without looking at it.
return 0.0f;
}
// init matrix d
for (int i = 0; i<=n; ++i) {
p[i] = i;
}
// start computing edit distance
for (int j = 1; j<=m; ++j) { // iterates through target
int bestPossibleEditDistance = m;
final char t_j = target.charAt(j-1); // jth character of t
d[0] = j;
for (int i=1; i<=n; ++i) { // iterates through text
// minimum of cell to the left+1, to the top+1, diagonally left and up +(0|1)
if (t_j != text[i-1]) {
d[i] = Math.min(Math.min(d[i-1], p[i]), p[i-1]) + 1;
} else {
d[i] = Math.min(Math.min(d[i-1]+1, p[i]+1), p[i-1]);
}
bestPossibleEditDistance = Math.min(bestPossibleEditDistance, d[i]);
}
//After calculating row i, the best possible edit distance
//can be found by found by finding the smallest value in a given column.
//If the bestPossibleEditDistance is greater than the max distance, abort.
if (j > maxDistance && bestPossibleEditDistance > maxDistance) { //equal is okay, but not greater
//the closest the target can be to the text is just too far away.
//this target is leaving the party early.
return 0.0f;
}
// copy current distance counts to 'previous row' distance counts: swap p and d
int _d[] = p;
p = d;
d = _d;
}