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17 package org.apache.commons.text.similarity;
18
19 import java.util.Map;
20
21 /**
22 * Measures the cosine distance between two character sequences.
23 *
24 * <p>It utilizes the {@link CosineSimilarity} to compute the distance. Character sequences
25 * are converted into vectors through a simple tokenizer that works with a regular expression
26 * to split words in a sentence.</p>
27 *
28 * <p>
29 * For further explanation about Cosine Similarity and Cosine Distance, refer to
30 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosine_similarity.
31 * </p>
32 *
33 * @since 1.0
34 * @see CosineSimilarity
35 */
36 public class CosineDistance implements EditDistance<Double> {
37
38 @Override
39 public Double apply(final CharSequence left, final CharSequence right) {
40 final CharSequence[] leftTokens = RegexTokenizer.INSTANCE.apply(left);
41 final CharSequence[] rightTokens = RegexTokenizer.INSTANCE.apply(right);
42
43 final Map<CharSequence, Integer> leftVector = Counter.of(leftTokens);
44 final Map<CharSequence, Integer> rightVector = Counter.of(rightTokens);
45 final double similarity = CosineSimilarity.INSTANCE.cosineSimilarity(leftVector, rightVector);
46 return 1.0 - similarity;
47 }
48
49 }