ocaml-containers/levenshtein.mli
Simon Cruanes ea92877a0a bugfixes and improved API (not implemented yet) for Levenshtein;
some bugs remain in DFA construction
2014-03-04 01:01:41 +01:00

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(*
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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 Automaton} *)
type 'a automaton
(** Levenshtein automaton for characters of type 'a *)
val of_array : ?compare:('a -> 'a -> int) -> limit:int -> 'a array -> 'a automaton
(** Build an automaton from an array, with a maximal distance [limit] *)
val of_list : ?compare:('a -> 'a -> int) -> limit:int -> 'a list -> 'a automaton
(** Build an automaton from a list, with a maximal distance [limit] *)
val of_string : limit:int -> string -> char automaton
(** Automaton for the special case of strings *)
val debug_print : out_channel -> char automaton -> unit
(** Output the automaton on the given channel. Only for string automata. *)
val match_with : 'a automaton -> 'a array -> 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] *)
val match_with_string : char automaton -> string -> bool
(** Specialized version of {!match_with} for strings *)
(** {6 Index for one-to-many matching} *)
(** Continuation list *)
type 'a klist =
[
| `Nil
| `Cons of 'a * (unit -> 'a klist)
]
module Index : sig
type ('a, 'b) t
(** Index that maps 'a strings to values of type 'b. Internally it is
based on a trie. *)
val empty : ?compare:('a -> 'a -> int) -> unit -> ('a, 'b) t
(** Empty index, possibly with a specific comparison function *)
val add : ('a, 'b) t -> 'a array -> 'b -> ('a, 'b) t
(** Add a char array to the index. If a value was already present
for this char it is replaced. *)
val add_string : (char, 'b) t -> string -> 'b -> (char, 'b) t
(** Add a string to a char index *)
val retrieve : limit:int -> ('a, 'b) t -> 'a array -> 'b klist
(** Lazy list of objects associated to strings close to
the query string *)
val retrieve_string : limit:int -> (char,'b) t -> string -> 'b klist
end