CHANGES - Revision history for Text::Similarity
Released June 26, 2013
Version 0.09 did not fix the windows testing error that we thought was fixed in 0.09. We think it has been fixed now. :)
Released January 22, 2013
This release includes changes contributed by Myroslava Dzikovska that provide the full set of similarity scores programmatically. She modified the interface so that the getSimilarity function returns a pair ($score, %allScores) where %allScores is a hash of all possible scores that it computes. She made it so that in scalar context it will only return $score, so it is fully backwards compatible with the older versions. She also changed the printing to STDERR, to make it easier to use the code in filter scripts that depend on STDIN/STDOUT.
This release also inludes changes ontributed by Nathan Glen to allow test cases to pass on Windows. The single quote used previously caused arguments to the script not to be passed corrected, leading to test failures. The single quotes have been changed to double quotes.
Released June 11, 2010 (all changes by YL)
Changed the stoplist option. stoplist file can be one word per line or one word in the regular expression format per line, or the mix of these two formats.
Released November 14, 2008 (all changes by TDP)
Changed test case that was tripping up Windows. In Linux these are treated as being the same (when order doesn't matter) but this is not the case in Windows.
'sir winston churchill' 'winston churchill SIR!!!'
The case has been changed to :
'sir winston churchill' 'winston churchill sir'
Released April 5, 2008 (all changes by TDP)
Added Dice coefficient to Overlaps.pm output. Dice is equivalent to F-measure, but formulated slightly differently so could be useful to catch errors.
Modified Overlaps method to provide lesk text matching score, that is the sum of the squared lengths of all phrasal matches (optionally normalized by the product of the lengths of the strings). It provides both Raw lesk and lesk (the normalized form) when run in verbose mode.
Reogranized some documentation to make it more clear that Overlaps is just one possible way of measuring similarity, and that other methods can and should be added.
Renamed text_compare.pl as the more natural and fitting text_similarity.pl
Released April 4, 2008 (all changes by TDP)
Made it possible for users to input strings directly via text_compare.pl and getSimilarityStrings. Previously it was only possible to directly measure the similarity of files, but now strings can be measured.
Released March 21, 2008 (all changes by TDP)
Introduced tests for text_compare.pl (t/text_compare.t) - added support for os neutral file reads via FILE::SPEC in this and other .t files.
Introduced tests for getOverlaps (t/overlaps.t)
Improved synopsis examples to show how to pass options via arguments in hashes
Clarified that stemming and compounding are not currently supported disabled compfile option in text_compare.pl
Made file handling in text_compare more robust so that when a file does not exist an error message is given and failure is immediate
Changed method of passing constants in test cases from (eg.) "Text::Similarity::NORMALIZE" to "normalize" in order to support backwards compatability with perl 5.6.
Introduce normalize and no-normalize tests for getSimilarity
Fix Similarity.pm Synopsis example not to use files in /t that are no longer available
Released March 20, 2008 (all changes by TDP)
fix divide by zero errors reported on cpan by cernst at esoft.com, who also provided fix
update test cases to improve coverage of partial matches and no matches
update synopsis examples so they can be run via cut and paste
improve README content to make it more descriptive
introduce /doc directory for pod of INSTALL README and CHANGES
introduce 'use constant' to support perl 5.6
Released October 16, 2004, all changes by JM
fixed overlap finding & added new module Text::OverlapFinder
improved command-line interface
improved documentation and help messages
added support for a stoplist
Released September 23, 2004, all changes by JM
original version; created by h2xs 1.23 with options -b 5.6.0 -A -X Text::Similarity
Ted Pedersen, University of Minnesota, Duluth tpederse at d.umn.edu Ying Liu, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities liux0395 at umn.edu
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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.