public int getLevenshteinDistance()

in geoentitylinker-addon/src/main/java/opennlp/addons/geoentitylinker/scoring/FuzzyStringMatchScorer.java [99:117]


  public int getLevenshteinDistance(CharSequence str1, CharSequence str2) {
    int[][] distance = new int[str1.length() + 1][str2.length() + 1];

    for (int i = 0; i <= str1.length(); i++) {
      distance[i][0] = i;
    }
    for (int j = 1; j <= str2.length(); j++) {
      distance[0][j] = j;
    }

    for (int i = 1; i <= str1.length(); i++) {
      for (int j = 1; j <= str2.length(); j++) {
        distance[i][j] = minimum(distance[i - 1][j] + 1, distance[i][j - 1] + 1,
                distance[i - 1][j - 1] + ((str1.charAt(i - 1) == str2.charAt(j - 1)) ? 0 : 1));
      }
    }

    return distance[str1.length()][str2.length()];
  }