src/main/java/org/apache/commons/text/similarity/JaccardSimilarity.java

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package org.apache.commons.text.similarity;

import java.util.HashSet;
import java.util.Set;

/**
 * Measures the Jaccard similarity (aka Jaccard index) of two sets of character
 * sequence. Jaccard similarity is the size of the intersection divided by the
 * size of the union of the two sets.
 *
 * <p>
 * For further explanation about Jaccard Similarity, refer
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaccard_index
 * </p>
 *
 * @since 1.0
 */
public class JaccardSimilarity implements SimilarityScore<Double> {

    /**
     * Calculates Jaccard Similarity of two set character sequence passed as
     * input.
     *
     * @param left first character sequence
     * @param right second character sequence
     * @return index
     * @throws IllegalArgumentException
     *             if either String input {@code null}
     */
    @Override
    public Double apply(final CharSequence left, final CharSequence right) {
        if (left == null || right == null) {
            throw new IllegalArgumentException("Input cannot be null");
        }
        return calculateJaccardSimilarity(left, right);
    }

    /**
     * Calculates Jaccard Similarity of two character sequences passed as
     * input. Does the calculation by identifying the union (characters in at
     * least one of the two sets) of the two sets and intersection (characters
     * which are present in set one which are present in set two)
     *
     * @param left first character sequence
     * @param right second character sequence
     * @return index
     */
    private Double calculateJaccardSimilarity(final CharSequence left, final CharSequence right) {
        final int leftLength = left.length();
        final int rightLength = right.length();
        if (leftLength == 0 && rightLength == 0) {
            return 1d;
        }
        if (leftLength == 0 || rightLength == 0) {
            return 0d;
        }
        final Set<Character> leftSet = new HashSet<>();
        for (int i = 0; i < leftLength; i++) {
            leftSet.add(left.charAt(i));
        }
        final Set<Character> rightSet = new HashSet<>();
        for (int i = 0; i < rightLength; i++) {
            rightSet.add(right.charAt(i));
        }
        final Set<Character> unionSet = new HashSet<>(leftSet);
        unionSet.addAll(rightSet);
        final int intersectionSize = leftSet.size() + rightSet.size() - unionSet.size();
        return 1.0d * intersectionSize / unionSet.size();
    }
}