serf.data
Class TitleMatcher

java.lang.Object
  serf.data.TitleMatcher

All Implemented Interfaces:

AtomicMatch

public class TitleMatcher
extends java.lang.Object
implements AtomicMatch

Constructor Summary

TitleMatcher()

TitleMatcher(float th)

Method Summary

boolean

valuesMatch(java.lang.String s1, java.lang.String s2) Test if titles match In this implementation the jaro similarity metric is used to compare string values.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

TitleMatcher

public TitleMatcher()

TitleMatcher

public TitleMatcher(float th)

Method Detail

valuesMatch

public boolean valuesMatch(java.lang.String s1,
                           java.lang.String s2)

Test if titles match In this implementation the jaro similarity metric is used to compare string values. Very similar strings will have a jaro score close to 1. Different strings have a jaro score close to 0.

Specified by:

valuesMatch in interface AtomicMatch

Parameters:

s1 - title 1

s2 - title 2

Returns:

true if jaro.score(title1, title2) > threshold (threshold defaults to 0.9)