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stringsim: scale taking edit weights into account

Open markvanderloo opened this issue 8 years ago • 0 comments

At the moment stringsim assumes that all weights are equal to 1 for edit-based distances. Although this does yield a valid maximum (weights are maximally 1), using lower weights will lower the maximum possible similarity. It is probably more intuitive to scale the similarities taking weights into account.

markvanderloo avatar Jul 15 '15 20:07 markvanderloo