edu.udo.cs.miningmart.schemamatching
Class SoundexMatcher

java.lang.Object
  edu.udo.cs.miningmart.schemamatching.MmSchemaMatcher
      edu.udo.cs.miningmart.schemamatching.NameAndTypeBasedSchemaMatcher
          edu.udo.cs.miningmart.schemamatching.SoundexMatcher

public class SoundexMatcher
extends NameAndTypeBasedSchemaMatcher

A simple matcher based on the soundex representation of strings.

Version:

$Id: SoundexMatcher.java,v 1.6 2006/09/27 15:00:03 euler Exp $

Author:

Timm Euler

Field Summary

Fields inherited from class edu.udo.cs.miningmart.schemamatching.MmSchemaMatcher

THRESHOLD

Constructor Summary

SoundexMatcher()

Method Summary

double

getNameSimilarity(java.lang.String str1, java.lang.String str2) Returns the double value that this matcher considers as the similarity between the two given Strings.

Methods inherited from class edu.udo.cs.miningmart.schemamatching.NameAndTypeBasedSchemaMatcher

getDirectSimilarity, getDirectSimilarity, getSimilarityInvolvingConcepts, getStringSimilarity

Methods inherited from class edu.udo.cs.miningmart.schemamatching.MmSchemaMatcher

getDatatypeSimilarity, getGlobalSimilarity, getSimilarity, getSimilarity, getSimilarityMatrix, getSimilarityMatrix, getSimilarMatchingsGreedy, objectsAreSimilar

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

SoundexMatcher

public SoundexMatcher()

Method Detail

getNameSimilarity

public double getNameSimilarity(java.lang.String str1,
                                java.lang.String str2)
                         throws SchemaMatchException

Description copied from class: MmSchemaMatcher

Returns the double value that this matcher considers as the similarity between the two given Strings.

Specified by:

getNameSimilarity in class MmSchemaMatcher

Parameters:

str1 - One String

str2 - Another String

Returns:

a similarity value

Throws:

SchemaMatchException

See Also:

MmSchemaMatcher.getNameSimilarity(String, String)