NAME

Text::Similarity::Overlaps - module for computing the similarity of text documents using literal string (word token) overlaps

SYNOPSIS

  use Text::Similarity::Overlaps;
  my $module = Text::Similarity::Overlaps->new;
  my $score = $module->getSimilarity ($file1, $file2);

DESCRIPTION

This module computes the similarity of two text documents by searching for literal word token overlaps in the two documents. The score is based on the F-measure and ranges between 0 and 1.

SEE ALSO

Text::Similarity, Text::OverlapFinder, text_compare.pl

AUTHOR

Jason Michelizzi, <jmichelizzi at sourceforge.net>

Ted Pedersen, <tpederse at d.umn.edu>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright (C) 2004 by Jason Michelizzi and Ted Pedersen

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License.