SimilarityDistance (OpenRefine 4.0-SNAPSHOT API)

All Known Implementing Classes:

VicinoDistance
```
public interface SimilarityDistance
```
A function that computes a similarity distance between two strings. This is introduced to provide a clean interface for extensions, independent of the library currently used (Simile Vicino, unmaintained since 2010 as of December 2018).

- Method Summary
  
  All Methods Instance Methods Abstract Methods
  Modifier and Type Method Description
  
  double compute(String a, String b)
  Compute the distance between two strings.

- Method Detail
  - compute
```
double compute(String a,
               String b)
```
    Compute the distance between two strings. This should return 0 when the two arguments are equal, and rise as their differences increase.