text_simlarity.pl - Measure the pair-wise similarity between files or strings
text_similarity.pl --type Text::Similarity::Overlaps --normalize --string '.......this is one' '????this is two' text_similarity.pl --type Text::Similarity::Overlaps --no-normalize --string '.......this is one' '????this is two' text_similarity.pl --type Text::Similarity::Overlaps --string 'sir winston churchill' 'Churchill, Winston Sir' text_similarity.pl --type Text::Similarity::Overlaps ../GPL.txt ../FDL.txt text_similarity.pl --verbose --type Text::Similarity::Overlaps ../GPL.txt ../FDL.txt text_similarity.pl --verbose --stoplist stoplist.txt --type Text::Similarity::Overlaps ../GPL.txt ../FDL.txt text_similarity.pl [[--verbose] [--stoplist=FILE] [--no-normalize] [--string]] --type=TYPE | --help | --version] FILE1 FILE2
This script is a simple command-line interface to the Text::Similarity Perl modules. A method for computing similarity must be specified via the --type option, and then that method is used to measure the similarity of two strings or two files.
Text::Similarity::Overlaps measures similarity by counting the number of words that overlap (match) between the two inputs, without regard to order. So, all of the following strings would have the same pairwise similarity (they would each have a raw score of 4 relative to each other, meaning that 4 words are overlapping or matching).
winston churchill was here here was winston churchill winston was here churchill
By default Text::Similarity::Overlaps returns a normalized F-measure between 0 and 1. Normalization can be turned off by specifying --no-normalize. It returns various other overlap based scores if you specify --verbose.
The type of text similarity measure. Valid values include:
Text::Similarity::Overlaps
The name of a file containing stop words. Under the ./sample directory, we give two formats of the stop words format, one word per line(stoplist.txt) and one word in the regular expression format per line(stoplist-nsp.regex). If you want to mix these two formats to make your own stop words file, it is also all right.
Do not normalize scores. Normally, scores are normalized so that they range from 0 to 1. Using this option will give you a raw score instead.
Input will be provided on the command line as strings, not files.
Show all the matches that are found between the files, their length and frequency, as well as precision, recall, F-measure, E-measure, Cosine, and the Dice Coefficient.
Show a detailed help message.
Show version information.
Ted Pedersen, University of Minnesota, Duluth tpederse at d.umn.edu Jason Michelizzi Ying Liu, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities liux0395 at umn.edu
Last modified by: $Id: text_similarity.pl,v 1.1.1.1 2013/06/26 02:38:12 tpederse Exp $
Copyright (C) 2004-2010, Jason Michelizzi, Ted Pedersen and Ying Liu
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
To install Text::Similarity, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.
cpanm
cpanm Text::Similarity
CPAN shell
perl -MCPAN -e shell install Text::Similarity
For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.