/* The Sørensen–Dice coefficient is a statistic used to gauge the similarity of two samples. * Applied to strings, it can give you a value between 0 and 1 (included) which tells you how similar they are. * Dice coefficient is calculated by comparing the bigrams of both strings, * a bigram is a substring of the string of length 2. * read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%B8rensen%E2%80%93Dice_coefficient */ // Time complexity: O(m + n), m and n being the sizes of string A and string B // Find the bistrings of a string and return a hashmap (key => bistring, value => count) function mapBigrams(string) { const bigrams = new Map() for (let i = 0; i < string.length - 1; i++) { const bigram = string.substring(i, i + 2) const count = bigrams.get(bigram) bigrams.set(bigram, (count || 0) + 1) } return bigrams } // Calculate the number of common bigrams between a map of bigrams and a string function countCommonBigrams(bigrams, string) { let count = 0 for (let i = 0; i < string.length - 1; i++) { const bigram = string.substring(i, i + 2) if (bigrams.has(bigram)) count++ } return count } // Calculate Dice coeff of 2 strings function diceCoefficient(stringA, stringB) { if (stringA === stringB) return 1 else if (stringA.length < 2 || stringB.length < 2) return 0 const bigramsA = mapBigrams(stringA) const lengthA = stringA.length - 1 const lengthB = stringB.length - 1 let dice = (2 * countCommonBigrams(bigramsA, stringB)) / (lengthA + lengthB) // cut 0.xxxxxx to 0.xx for simplicity dice = Math.floor(dice * 100) / 100 return dice } export { diceCoefficient }