Today, I submitted a new open source project onto Google Code. It is a Java port of a string similarity library that I wrote years ago. The API is a service that calculates a distance or similarity score between two strings. A score of 0.0 means that the two strings are absolutely dissimilar, and 1.0 means that absolutely similar (or equal). Anything in between is a metric on how similar each the two strings are.
Here is a simple example, using the Jaro-Winkler algorithm strategy:
SimilarityStrategy strategy = new JaroWinklerStrategy();
String target = "McDonalds";
String source = "MacMahons";
StringSimilarityService service = new StringSimilarityServiceImpl(strategy);
double score = service.score(source, target); // Score is 0.90
The next step for this project will be documentation and figure out where to host binary releases.
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