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    017package org.apache.commons.text.similarity;
    018
    019import java.util.Map;
    020
    021/**
    022 * Measures the cosine distance between two character sequences.
    023 *
    024 * <p>It utilizes the {@link CosineSimilarity} to compute the distance. Character sequences
    025 * are converted into vectors through a simple tokenizer that works with a regular expression
    026 * to split words in a sentence.</p>
    027 *
    028 * <p>
    029 * For further explanation about Cosine Similarity and Cosine Distance, refer to
    030 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosine_similarity.
    031 * </p>
    032 *
    033 * @since 1.0
    034 * @see CosineSimilarity
    035 */
    036public class CosineDistance implements EditDistance<Double> {
    037
    038    /**
    039     * Construct a new instance.
    040     */
    041    public CosineDistance() {
    042        // empty
    043    }
    044
    045    @Override
    046    public Double apply(final CharSequence left, final CharSequence right) {
    047        final CharSequence[] leftTokens = RegexTokenizer.INSTANCE.apply(left);
    048        final CharSequence[] rightTokens = RegexTokenizer.INSTANCE.apply(right);
    049
    050        final Map<CharSequence, Integer> leftVector = Counter.of(leftTokens);
    051        final Map<CharSequence, Integer> rightVector = Counter.of(rightTokens);
    052        final double similarity = CosineSimilarity.INSTANCE.cosineSimilarity(leftVector, rightVector);
    053        return 1.0 - similarity;
    054    }
    055
    056}