Levenshtein distance and similarity metrics with customizable edit costs and Winkler-like bonus for common prefix.

Overview

A Go package for calculating the Levenshtein distance between two strings

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This package implements distance and similarity metrics for strings, based on the Levenshtein measure, in Go.

Project Status

v1.2.3 Stable: Guaranteed no breaking changes to the API in future v1.x releases. Probably safe to use in production, though provided on "AS IS" basis.

This package is being actively maintained. If you encounter any problems or have any suggestions for improvement, please open an issue. Pull requests are welcome.

Overview

The Levenshtein Distance between two strings is the minimum total cost of edits that would convert the first string into the second. The allowed edit operations are insertions, deletions, and substitutions, all at character (one UTF-8 code point) level. Each operation has a default cost of 1, but each can be assigned its own cost equal to or greater than 0.

A Distance of 0 means the two strings are identical, and the higher the value the more different the strings. Since in practice we are interested in finding if the two strings are "close enough", it often does not make sense to continue the calculation once the result is mathematically guaranteed to exceed a desired threshold. Providing this value to the Distance function allows it to take a shortcut and return a lower bound instead of an exact cost when the threshold is exceeded.

The Similarity function calculates the distance, then converts it into a normalized metric within the range 0..1, with 1 meaning the strings are identical, and 0 that they have nothing in common. A minimum similarity threshold can be provided to speed up the calculation of the metric for strings that are far too dissimilar for the purpose at hand. All values under this threshold are rounded down to 0.

The Match function provides a similarity metric, with the same range and meaning as Similarity, but with a bonus for string pairs that share a common prefix and have a similarity above a "bonus threshold". It uses the same method as proposed by Winkler for the Jaro distance, and the reasoning behind it is that these string pairs are very likely spelling variations or errors, and they are more closely linked than the edit distance alone would suggest.

The underlying Calculate function is also exported, to allow the building of other derivative metrics, if needed.

Installation

go get github.com/agext/levenshtein

License

Package levenshtein is released under the Apache 2.0 license. See the LICENSE file for details.

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Comments
  • Enable go modules

    Enable go modules

    Go modules are becoming a de-facto standard in the Go community and adding go.mod files with metadata helps projects which may consume this repository as a dependency in deciding how to pin transitive dependencies and how to resolve conflicts.

    This is a result of the following commands:

    go mod init
    go get ./...
    go mod tidy
    

    in a clean Go 1.11.5 environment.

    opened by radeksimko 4
  • panic: runtime error: index out of range

    panic: runtime error: index out of range

    Hello,

    please excuse if this is not an issue with your code but as a beginner in Golang it seems to me like it could be.

    Here is the sample code I run:

    package main
    
    import "fmt"
    import "github.com/davecgh/go-spew/spew"
    import "github.com/agext/levenshtein"
    
    func main () {
    	var myparams = levenshtein.NewParams()
    	myparams.MinScore(0.92)
    	spew.Dump(myparams)
    
    	fmt.Println(levenshtein.Match(`foo`, `foo`, myparams))
    	fmt.Println(levenshtein.Match(`foo`, `bar`, myparams))
    	fmt.Println(levenshtein.Match(`NetworkManager-glib-0.8.1-5.el6_0.1.i686.rpm`, `gdm-plugin-fingerprint-2.30.4-39.el6.i686.rpm`, myparams))
    }
    

    It produces the following output:

    (*levenshtein.Params)(0xc000094100)({
     insCost: (int) 1,
     subCost: (int) 1,
     delCost: (int) 1,
     maxCost: (int) 0,
     minScore: (float64) 0.92,
     bonusPrefix: (int) 4,
     bonusScale: (float64) 0.1,
     bonusThreshold: (float64) 0.7
    })
    1
    0
    panic: runtime error: index out of range
    
    goroutine 1 [running]:
    github.com/agext/levenshtein.Calculate(0xc0000ca000, 0x24, 0x2c, 0xc0000cc000, 0x23, 0x30, 0x5, 0x1, 0x1, 0x1, ...)
    	/Users/smeier/go/src/github.com/agext/levenshtein/levenshtein.go:112 +0x8ba
    github.com/agext/levenshtein.Match(0x11036f6, 0x2c, 0x11037ff, 0x2d, 0xc000094100, 0x2)
    	/Users/smeier/go/src/github.com/agext/levenshtein/levenshtein.go:272 +0x1a8
    main.main()
    	/Users/smeier/Documents/grabbag/levenshtein_bug.go:14 +0x271
    exit status 2
    
    

    I am running go version go1.12.5 darwin/amd64.

    Any help or comments are appreciated.

    opened by stevemeier 3
  • Getting a 500 error when trying to pull this dep

    Getting a 500 error when trying to pull this dep

    OI have the following in my Gopkg.lock file:

    [[projects]]
      name = "github.com/agext/levenshtein"
      packages = ["."]
      revision = "5f10fee965225ac1eecdc234c09daf5cd9e7f7b6"
      version = "v1.2.1"
    

    Output from running dep ensure.

    Solving failure: no valid source could be created: 
            failed to set up sources from the following URLs:
    https://github.com/agext/levenshtein
    : remote repository at https://github.com/agext/levenshtein does not exist, or is inaccessible: remote: Internal Server Error.
    remote: 
    fatal: unable to access 'https://github.com/agext/levenshtein/': The requested URL returned error: 500
    : exit status 128
            failed to set up sources from the following URLs:
    ssh://[email protected]/agext/levenshtein
    : remote repository at ssh://[email protected]/agext/levenshtein does not exist, or is inaccessible: ERROR: 
    fatal: Could not read from remote repository.
    
    Please make sure you have the correct access rights
    and the repository exists.
    : exit status 128
            failed to set up sources from the following URLs:
    git://github.com/agext/levenshtein
    : remote repository at git://github.com/agext/levenshtein does not exist, or is inaccessible: fatal: remote error: 
      
    : exit status 128
            failed to set up sources from the following URLs:
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    opened by HairyMike 2
  • Getting the issue 422  while pulling github.com/mattn/goveralls

    Getting the issue 422 while pulling github.com/mattn/goveralls

    package levenshtein failing as bwlow when it tried to access github.com/mattn/goveralls https://travis-ci.com/github/asellappen/levenshtein/jobs/398770419

    Testing with goveralls... go: downloading github.com/mattn/goveralls v0.0.7 go: github.com/mattn/goveralls upgrade => v0.0.7 go: downloading golang.org/x/tools v0.0.0-20200522201501-cb1345f3a375 Bad response status from coveralls: 422 {"message":"Couldn't find a repository matching this job.","error":true} The command "./test.sh $TEST_METHOD" exited with 1.

    have tried with adding COVERALLS_TOKEN in travis.yml as below and still its failing , travis encrypt COVERALLS_TOKEN=your_token_goes_here --add env.global env: global: secure: 0wWHj9zvAqpjPMxngeVm6+WwjynAAfOwoGy1yBnwiH7rsOskuWbf7aaaOhVC65fH+wiRbmBIpGMlVXv5wrKGrK7EXxMcoXBtie0MoK2UCWRwJcYG3+e4bZ9wLe+3eBRGK/EbT8GawHrJaZxPvhg......................................

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