README.md

String Similarity for Kotlin

This is a library that implements various measures of string similarity and distance.

Install

Add the Maven Central repository if it is not already there:

repositories {
    mavenCentral()
}

Add a dependency to the dependencies block:

dependencies {
    implementation "com.aallam.similarity:string-similarity-kotlin:$version"
}

Algorithms

The following is the list of implemented algorithms:

• Levenshtein
• Normalized Levenshtein
• Weighted Levenshtein
• Damerau-Levenshtein
• Optimal String Alignment
• Jaro-Winkler
• Longest Common Subsequence
• Metric Longest Common Subsequence
• N-Gram
• Q-Gram
• Cosine similarity
• Jaccard index
• Sorensen-Dice coefficient
• Ratcliff-Obershelp

Prior-Art

The library is a Kotlin port of java-string-similarity.

License

The library is an open-sourced software licensed under the MIT license.