- All Known Implementing Classes:
- AssociationStringSimilarity, BasenameSimilarity, HighestOccurrenceSimilarity, HighestSISimilarity, HighestVariantNameSimilarity, SLSimilarity, TypeSimilarity
public interface TopicSimilarity
TopicSimilarity is an interface to measure topic similarity. Interface
consists of two methods. The similarity method takes two topics as arguments
and returns a double number. If returned double number is zero, topics are
identical (in the similarity model). Nonzero values suggest the topics
are different. The user should notice the similarity scale is reversed making
it more like "difference scale": Maximum similarity is at 0 and there is no
maximum difference.
Second interface method is used to return a name for the
similarity measure.
- Author:
- akivela