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package com.excelsior.xds.ui.editor.modula.spellcheck.internal.engine;

/**
 * Interface of algorithms to compute the phonetic distance between two words.
 *
 * @since 3.0
 */
public interface IPhoneticDistanceAlgorithm {

	/**
	 * Returns the non-negative phonetic distance between two words
	 *
	 * @param from
	 *                  The first word
	 * @param to
	 *                  The second word
	 * @return The non-negative phonetic distance between the words.
	 */
	public int getDistance(String from, String to);
}
