Project Summary
Harry is a small tool for comparing strings. The tool supports several common distance and kernel functions for strings as well as some excotic similarity measures. The focus of Harry lies on implicit similarity measures, that is, comparison functions that do not give rise to an explicit vector space. Examples of such similarity measures are the Levenshtein distance, the Jaro-Winkler distance or the sectrum kernel.
Harry is implemented using OpenMP, such that the computation time for a set of strings scales linear with the number of available CPU cores. Moreover, efficient implementations of several similarity measures, effective caching of similarity values and low-overhead locking further speedup the computation.
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took an estimated 2 years of effort (COCOMO model)
starting with its first commit in January, 2013
ending with its most recent commit over 6 years ago
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