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Jaro Winkler similarity on short strings #50
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The Jaro Similarity of
Jaro-Winkler gives more favorable ratings to strings that match from the beginning. |
when I compare 2 strings wrt jaroWinkler when I check the same on https://asecuritysite.com/forensics/simstring |
I am trying to use jaro wrinkler similarity to check colors strings coming from user inputted form against a palette of fixed colors.
Using jaro wrinkler similarity, I get these kind of results for very short strings:
s1 = "ed"
-s2 = "red"
->similarity = 0
s1 = "nude"
-s2 = "red"
->similarity = 0.5833333134651184
Is it correct to get
similarity = 0
in the first case?The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: