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jaccard_similarity: Calculate Jaccard Similarity of two character vectors

Description

Calculate Jaccard Similarity of two character vectors

Usage

jaccard_similarity(a, b, ngram_width = 2)

Value

a vector of jaccard similarities of the strings

Arguments

a

the first character vector

b

the first character vector

ngram_width

the length of the shingles / ngrams used in the similarity calculation

Examples

Run this code
jaccard_similarity(
  c("the quick brown fox", "jumped over the lazy dog"),
  c("the quck bron fx", "jumped over hte lazy dog")
)

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