ocaml-containers/levenshtein.mli
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(** {1 Levenshtein distance}
We take inspiration from
http://blog.notdot.net/2010/07/Damn-Cool-Algorithms-Levenshtein-Automata
for the main algorithm and ideas. However some parts are adapted *)
(** {2 Abstraction over Strings} *)
module type STRING = sig
type char_
type t
val of_list : char_ list -> t
val get : t -> int -> char_
val length : t -> int
val compare_char : char_ -> char_ -> int
end
(** {2 Continuation list} *)
type 'a klist =
[
| `Nil
| `Cons of 'a * (unit -> 'a klist)
]
val klist_to_list : 'a klist -> 'a list
(** Helper. *)
(** {2 Signature}
We abstract over the type of characters and strings, so that we
can deal with several encodings, string representations, etc. *)
module type S = sig
type char_
type string_
(** {6 Edit Distance} *)
val edit_distance : string_ -> string_ -> int
(** Edition distance between two strings. This satisfies the classical
distance axioms: it is always positive, symmetric, and satisfies
the formula [distance a b + distance b c >= distance a c] *)
(** {6 Automaton}
An automaton, built from a string [s] and a limit [n], that accepts
every string that is at distance at most [n] from [s]. *)
type automaton
(** Levenshtein automaton *)
val of_string : limit:int -> string_ -> automaton
(** Build an automaton from an array, with a maximal distance [limit] *)
val of_list : limit:int -> char_ list -> automaton
(** Build an automaton from a list, with a maximal distance [limit] *)
val debug_print : (out_channel -> char_ -> unit) ->
out_channel -> automaton -> unit
(** Output the automaton on the given channel. *)
val match_with : automaton -> string_ -> bool
(** [match_with a s] matches the string [s] against [a], and returns
[true] if the distance from [s] to the word represented by [a] is smaller
than the limit used to build [a] *)
(** {6 Index for one-to-many matching} *)
module Index : sig
type 'b t
(** Index that maps strings to values of type 'b. Internally it is
based on a trie. *)
val empty : 'b t
(** Empty index *)
val is_empty : _ t -> bool
val add : 'b t -> string_ -> 'b -> 'b t
(** Add a char array to the index. If a value was already present
for this array it is replaced. *)
val remove : 'b t -> string_ -> 'b -> 'b t
(** Remove a string from the index. *)
val retrieve : limit:int -> 'b t -> string_ -> 'b klist
(** Lazy list of objects associated to strings close to the query string *)
val of_list : (string_ * 'b) list -> 'b t
val to_list : 'b t -> (string_ * 'b) list
(* TODO sequence/iteration functions *)
end
end
module Make(Str : STRING) : S
with type string_ = Str.t
and type char_ = Str.char_
include S with type char_ = char and type string_ = string
val debug_print : out_channel -> automaton -> unit