CosineDistance.java

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package org.apache.commons.text.similarity;

import java.util.Map;

/**
 * Measures the cosine distance between two character sequences.
 *
 * <p>It utilizes the {@link CosineSimilarity} to compute the distance. Character sequences
 * are converted into vectors through a simple tokenizer that works with a regular expression
 * to split words in a sentence.</p>
 *
 * <p>
 * For further explanation about Cosine Similarity and Cosine Distance, refer to
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosine_similarity.
 * </p>
 *
 * @since 1.0
 * @see CosineSimilarity
 */
public class CosineDistance implements EditDistance<Double> {

    @Override
    public Double apply(final CharSequence left, final CharSequence right) {
        final CharSequence[] leftTokens = RegexTokenizer.INSTANCE.apply(left);
        final CharSequence[] rightTokens = RegexTokenizer.INSTANCE.apply(right);

        final Map<CharSequence, Integer> leftVector = Counter.of(leftTokens);
        final Map<CharSequence, Integer> rightVector = Counter.of(rightTokens);
        final double similarity = CosineSimilarity.INSTANCE.cosineSimilarity(leftVector, rightVector);
        return 1.0 - similarity;
    }

}