解决方案#1:内置Python

使用difflib中的SequenceMatcher

优点: 本机python库，不需要额外的包。 缺点:太有限了，有很多其他的字符串相似度的好算法。

例子

>>> from difflib import SequenceMatcher
>>> s = SequenceMatcher(None, "abcd", "bcde")
>>> s.ratio()
0.75

解决方案#2:水母库

这是一个非常好的图书馆，覆盖面广，问题少。 它支持: - Levenshtein距离 -达默罗-利文斯坦距离 ——Jaro Distance - Jaro-Winkler距离 -匹配评级方法比较 -汉明距离

优点: 易于使用，支持的算法的范围，测试。 缺点:不是本地库。

例子:

>>> import jellyfish
>>> jellyfish.levenshtein_distance(u'jellyfish', u'smellyfish')
2
>>> jellyfish.jaro_distance(u'jellyfish', u'smellyfish')
0.89629629629629637
>>> jellyfish.damerau_levenshtein_distance(u'jellyfish', u'jellyfihs')
1

出于我的目的，我有自己的quick_ratio()，它比difflib SequenceMatcher的quick_ratio()快2倍，同时提供类似的结果。A和b是字符串:

    score = 0
    for letters in enumerate(a):
        score = score + b.count(letters[1])

还添加了Spacy NLP库;

@profile
def main():
    str1= "Mar 31 09:08:41  The world is beautiful"
    str2= "Mar 31 19:08:42  Beautiful is the world"
    print("NLP Similarity=",nlp(str1).similarity(nlp(str2)))
    print("Diff lib similarity",SequenceMatcher(None, str1, str2).ratio()) 
    print("Jellyfish lib similarity",jellyfish.jaro_distance(str1, str2))

if __name__ == '__main__':

    #python3 -m spacy download en_core_web_sm
    #nlp = spacy.load("en_core_web_sm")
    nlp = spacy.load("en_core_web_md")
    main()

使用Robert Kern的line_profiler运行

kernprof -l -v ./python/loganalysis/testspacy.py

NLP Similarity= 0.9999999821467294
Diff lib similarity 0.5897435897435898
Jellyfish lib similarity 0.8561253561253562

然而，时间的启示

Function: main at line 32

Line #      Hits         Time  Per Hit   % Time  Line Contents
==============================================================
    32                                           @profile
    33                                           def main():
    34         1          1.0      1.0      0.0      str1= "Mar 31 09:08:41  The world is beautiful"
    35         1          0.0      0.0      0.0      str2= "Mar 31 19:08:42  Beautiful is the world"
    36         1      43248.0  43248.0     99.1      print("NLP Similarity=",nlp(str1).similarity(nlp(str2)))
    37         1        375.0    375.0      0.9      print("Diff lib similarity",SequenceMatcher(None, str1, str2).ratio()) 
    38         1         30.0     30.0      0.1      print("Jellyfish lib similarity",jellyfish.jaro_distance(str1, str2))

注意,difflib。SequenceMatcher只找到最长的连续匹配子序列，这通常不是我们想要的，例如:

>>> a1 = "Apple"
>>> a2 = "Appel"
>>> a1 *= 50
>>> a2 *= 50
>>> SequenceMatcher(None, a1, a2).ratio()
0.012  # very low
>>> SequenceMatcher(None, a1, a2).get_matching_blocks()
[Match(a=0, b=0, size=3), Match(a=250, b=250, size=0)]  # only the first block is recorded

寻找两个字符串之间的相似性与生物信息学中成对序列比对的概念密切相关。有许多专门的库，包括生物马拉松。这个例子实现了Needleman Wunsch算法:

>>> from Bio.Align import PairwiseAligner
>>> aligner = PairwiseAligner()
>>> aligner.score(a1, a2)
200.0
>>> aligner.algorithm
'Needleman-Wunsch'

使用biopython或其他生物信息学包比python标准库的任何部分都更灵活，因为有许多不同的评分方案和算法可用。此外，你可以得到匹配的序列来可视化正在发生的事情:

>>> alignment = next(aligner.align(a1, a2))
>>> alignment.score
200.0
>>> print(alignment)
Apple-Apple-Apple-Apple-Apple-Apple-Apple-Apple-Apple-Apple-Apple-Apple-Apple-Apple-Apple-Apple-Apple-Apple-Apple-Apple-Apple-Apple-Apple-Apple-Apple-Apple-Apple-Apple-Apple-Apple-Apple-Apple-Apple-Apple-Apple-Apple-Apple-Apple-Apple-Apple-Apple-Apple-Apple-Apple-Apple-Apple-Apple-Apple-Apple-Apple-
|||-|-|||-|-|||-|-|||-|-|||-|-|||-|-|||-|-|||-|-|||-|-|||-|-|||-|-|||-|-|||-|-|||-|-|||-|-|||-|-|||-|-|||-|-|||-|-|||-|-|||-|-|||-|-|||-|-|||-|-|||-|-|||-|-|||-|-|||-|-|||-|-|||-|-|||-|-|||-|-|||-|-|||-|-|||-|-|||-|-|||-|-|||-|-|||-|-|||-|-|||-|-|||-|-|||-|-|||-|-|||-|-|||-|-|||-|-|||-|-|||-|-|||-|-
App-elApp-elApp-elApp-elApp-elApp-elApp-elApp-elApp-elApp-elApp-elApp-elApp-elApp-elApp-elApp-elApp-elApp-elApp-elApp-elApp-elApp-elApp-elApp-elApp-elApp-elApp-elApp-elApp-elApp-elApp-elApp-elApp-elApp-elApp-elApp-elApp-elApp-elApp-elApp-elApp-elApp-elApp-elApp-elApp-elApp-elApp-elApp-elApp-elApp-el

内置的SequenceMatcher在大输入时非常慢，下面是如何用diff-match-patch完成的:

from diff_match_patch import diff_match_patch

def compute_similarity_and_diff(text1, text2):
    dmp = diff_match_patch()
    dmp.Diff_Timeout = 0.0
    diff = dmp.diff_main(text1, text2, False)

    # similarity
    common_text = sum([len(txt) for op, txt in diff if op == 0])
    text_length = max(len(text1), len(text2))
    sim = common_text / text_length

    return sim, diff

如上所述，有许多指标可以定义字符串之间的相似性和距离。我将给出我的5美分，通过展示一个Jaccard与Q-Grams相似的例子和一个编辑距离的例子。

库

from nltk.metrics.distance import jaccard_distance
from nltk.util import ngrams
from nltk.metrics.distance  import edit_distance

Jaccard相似

1-jaccard_distance(set(ngrams('Apple', 2)), set(ngrams('Appel', 2)))

我们得到:

0.33333333333333337

还有苹果和芒果

1-jaccard_distance(set(ngrams('Apple', 2)), set(ngrams('Mango', 2)))

我们得到:

0.0

编辑距离

edit_distance('Apple', 'Appel')

我们得到:

2

最后,

edit_distance('Apple', 'Mango')

我们得到:

5

q - grams上的余弦相似度(q=2)

另一个解决方案是使用textdistance库。我将提供一个余弦相似度的例子

import textdistance
1-textdistance.Cosine(qval=2).distance('Apple', 'Appel')

我们得到:

0.5