JavaScript port of the SimMetrics Java library plus more.

• Installation
• Usage
• Changelog
  • 0.8.12
  • 0.8.11
  • 0.8.10
• Usage
• Developer getting started
• Contributors
• General Description
  • A note I should make:
• Soundex Notes

Installation

In your project

npm install --save '@kba/simmetrics'

Usage

This module exports the file tree in ./lib as an object, i.e. relative path from ./lib equals object path:

var simmetrics = require('@kba/simmetrics');
var MogenElkan = simmetrics.similaritymetrics.MongeElkan;
…

This is a further fork from msamblet's version, which is a fork from novacrazy's version. I'm focused on a few additional things:

• Make this library produce the same values as the java version (important!) So far this means better results for
  • ChapmanMatchingSoundex
  • Levenshtein
  • MongeElkan
  • SmithWatermanGotoh
  • NeedlemanWunch
• Automated testing
• Work with node.js
• Adding SmithWatermanGotoh metrics support.

Changelog

0.8.13

Improved README

0.8.12

• Actually export the functions
• Fix syntax errors

0.8.11

• Fixed tests

0.8.10

combined with previous versions, the above focus points are in place (node.js support, testing, certain metrics) and is now published as an npm module (and I changed the name of the repo to match). This version just updates the readme.

Usage

See the test folder

simmetrics.test.js is a good place to start.

Developer getting started

npm install
npm install -g mocha

and then to run all the tests:

mocha

##ToDo

1. The following metrics still seem to generate different answers than the java version, and need to be corrected.
   • EuclideanDistance
   • MatchingCoefficient
   • MongeElkan
   • OverlapCoefficient
   • QGramsDistance

Contributors

See [https://github.com/kba/simmetrics/graphs/contributors]

General Description

Hand-optimized and re-factored to provide clean and fast string similarity algorithms for JavaScript developers.

Although this is designed for Node.js, I will provide a browser version sometime in the future (or if anyone would like to contribute one).

So far, nearly all parts of the library have been ported. Algorithms left to be added are:

• TagLink
• TagLinkToken

I should have those up very soon.

A note I should make:

I did not include the original timing tests for each one. I think they are unnecessary. However, as they can be useful sometimes, I will include them sometime as seperate modules which can be merged into the algorithms.

Soundex Notes

Soundex works as an object created by new, in which case the normal soundex function is called as instance.soundex(input[, length]); OR you can simply call the Soundex function directly as Soundex(input[, length]);

Also, it does not include the hyphen between the leading letter and the soundex numbers.