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Levenshtein distance最先是由俄国科学家Vladimir Levenshtein在1965年发明,用他的名字命名。不会拼读,可以叫它edit distance(编辑距离)。

原理很简单,就是返回将第一个字符串转换(删除、插入、替换)成第二个字符串的编辑次数。次数越少,意味着字符串相似度越高

Levenshtein distance可以用来:

Spell checking(拼写检查)
Speech recognition(语句识别)
DNA analysis(DNA分析)
Plagiarism detection(抄袭检测)
LD用m*n的矩阵存储距离值。算法大概过程:
Demo1:

/**  
* 编辑距离的两字符串相似度
*
* @author jianpo.mo
*/
public class SimilarityUtil {

private static int min(int one, int two, int three) {
int min = one;
if(two < min) {
min = two;
}
if(three < min) {
min = three;
}
return min;
}

public static int ld(String str1, String str2) {
int d[][]; //矩阵
int n = str1.length();
int m = str2.length();
int i; //遍历str1的
int j; //遍历str2的
char ch1; //str1的
char ch2; //str2的
int temp; //记录相同字符,在某个矩阵位置值的增量,不是0就是1
if(n == 0) {
return m;
}
if(m == 0) {
return n;
}
d = new int[n+1][m+1];
for(i=0; i<=n; i++) { //初始化第一列
d[i][0] = i;
}
for(j=0; j<=m; j++) { //初始化第一行
d[0][j] = j;
}
for(i=1; i<=n; i++) { //遍历str1
ch1 = str1.charAt(i-1);
//去匹配str2
for(j=1; j<=m; j++) {
ch2 = str2.charAt(j-1);
if(ch1 == ch2) {
temp = 0;
} else {
temp = 1;
}
//左边+1,上边+1, 左上角+temp取最小
d[i][j] = min(d[i-1][j]+1, d[i][j-1]+1, d[i-1][j-1]+temp);
}
}
return d[n][m];
}

public static double sim(String str1, String str2) {
int ld = ld(str1, str2);
return 1 - (double) ld / Math.max(str1.length(), str2.length());
}

public static void main(String[] args) {

String str1 = "chenlb.blogjava.net";
String str2 = "chenlb.javaeye.com";
System.out.println("ld="+ld(str1, str2));
System.out.println("sim="+sim(str1, str2));
}
}




Demo2:


public class LevenshteinDistance {
public static void main(String[] args){
String str1 = "i5rrrvan1";
String str2 = "ittvan2";
System.out.println("字符串1 {0}:"+str1);

System.out.println("字符串2 {0}:"+str2);

System.out.println("相似度 {0} %:"+ new LevenshteinDistance().LevenshteinDistancePercent(str1, str2) * 100);

}

private int LowerOfThree(int first, int second, int third)
{
int min = Math.min(first, second);

return Math.min(min, third);
}

private int Levenshtein_Distance(String str1, String str2)
{
int[][] Matrix;
int n = str1.length();
int m = str2.length();

int temp = 0;
char ch1;
char ch2;
int i = 0;
int j = 0;
if (n == 0)
{
return m;
}
if (m == 0)
{

return n;
}
Matrix = new int[n + 1][ m + 1];

for (i = 0; i <= n; i++)
{
//初始化第一列
Matrix[i][ 0] = i;
}

for (j = 0; j <= m; j++)
{
//初始化第一行
Matrix[0][j] = j;
}

for (i = 1; i <= n; i++)
{
ch1 = str1.charAt(i - 1);
for (j = 1; j <= m; j++)
{
ch2 = str2.charAt(j-1);
if (ch1==ch2)
{
temp = 0;
}
else
{
temp = 1;
}
Matrix[i][j] = LowerOfThree(Matrix[i - 1][ j] + 1, Matrix[i][ j - 1] + 1, Matrix[i - 1][j - 1] + temp);
}
}
for (i = 0; i <= n; i++)
{
for (j = 0; j <= m; j++)
{
System.out.println(" {0} :"+Matrix[i][j]);
}
System.out.println("");
}

return Matrix[n][ m];
}


public double LevenshteinDistancePercent(String str1, String str2)
{
//int maxLenth = str1.Length > str2.Length ? str1.Length : str2.Length;
int val = Levenshtein_Distance(str1, str2);
return 1 - (double)val / Math.max(str1.length(), str2.length());
}
}