weka.core
Class EditDistance

java.lang.Object
  weka.core.NormalizableDistance
      weka.core.AbstractStringDistanceFunction
          weka.core.EditDistance

All Implemented Interfaces:

Serializable, DistanceFunction, OptionHandler, RevisionHandler

public class EditDistance
extends AbstractStringDistanceFunction

Computes the Levenshtein edit distance between two strings.

Version:

$Revision: 1.2 $

Author:

Bruno Woltzenlogel Paleo

See Also:

Serialized Form

Field Summary

Fields inherited from class weka.core.NormalizableDistance

R_MAX, R_MIN, R_WIDTH

Constructor Summary

EditDistance()

EditDistance(Instances data)

Method Summary

String	getRevision() Returns the revision string.
String	globalInfo() Returns a string describing this object.

Methods inherited from class weka.core.AbstractStringDistanceFunction

distance

Methods inherited from class weka.core.NormalizableDistance

attributeIndicesTipText, distance, distance, distance, dontNormalizeTipText, getAttributeIndices, getDontNormalize, getInstances, getInvertSelection, getOptions, getRanges, initializeRanges, initializeRanges, initializeRanges, initializeRangesEmpty, inRanges, invertSelectionTipText, listOptions, postProcessDistances, rangesSet, setAttributeIndices, setDontNormalize, setInstances, setInvertSelection, setOptions, toString, update, updateRanges, updateRanges, updateRanges, updateRangesFirst

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

equals, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

EditDistance

public EditDistance()

EditDistance

public EditDistance(Instances data)

Method Detail

globalInfo

public String globalInfo()

Returns a string describing this object.

Specified by:

globalInfo in class NormalizableDistance

Returns:

a description of the evaluator suitable for displaying in the explorer/experimenter gui

getRevision

public String getRevision()

Returns the revision string.

Returns:

the revision