Text-distance

Text-distance is a python package written in rust to calculate similarity of two texts. currently supports below algorithms:

1. Bi-gram jaccard similarity
2. Cosine similarity
3. longest common subsequence
4. longest common substring

installation

to install python package from source:

pip install maturin

maturin build --release

it will create a whl file under target folder and then you can just install the whl file in python

example usage:

import textdistance
cosine_distance = textdistance.cosine_similarities(["hello there"],
                                           [["hello there", "hi there"]])

jaccard_distance = textdistance.jaccard_similarities(["hello there"],
                                           [["hello there", "hi there"]])

lcsseq = textdistance.longest_common_subsequence_max(["hello there"],
                                           [["hello there", "hi there"]])

lcstr = textdistance.longest_common_substring_max(["hello there"],
                                           [["hello there", "hi there"]])