Merge pull request 'Import dnet-pace-core module in this project and use it after renaming to dhp-pace-core' (#319) from beta_with_pace_core into beta

Reviewed-on: #319

dhp-common/pom.xml

@@ -60,6 +60,11 @@
 	</build>
 
 	<dependencies>
+		<dependency>
+			<groupId>eu.dnetlib.dhp</groupId>
+			<artifactId>dhp-pace-core</artifactId>
+			<version>${project.version}</version>
+		</dependency>
 
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
@@ -142,11 +147,6 @@
 			<artifactId>okhttp</artifactId>
 		</dependency>
 
-		<dependency>
-			<groupId>eu.dnetlib</groupId>
-			<artifactId>dnet-pace-core</artifactId>
-		</dependency>
-
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>org.apache.httpcomponents</groupId>
 			<artifactId>httpclient</artifactId>

dhp-pace-core/pom.xml

@@ -0,0 +1,105 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
+
+    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
+
+	<parent>
+		<groupId>eu.dnetlib.dhp</groupId>
+		<artifactId>dhp</artifactId>
+		<version>1.2.5-SNAPSHOT</version>
+        <relativePath>../pom.xml</relativePath>
+	</parent>
+
+	<groupId>eu.dnetlib.dhp</groupId>
+	<artifactId>dhp-pace-core</artifactId>
+	<version>1.2.5-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <packaging>jar</packaging>
+
+	<build>
+		<plugins>
+			<plugin>
+				<groupId>net.alchim31.maven</groupId>
+				<artifactId>scala-maven-plugin</artifactId>
+				<version>4.0.1</version>
+				<executions>
+					<execution>
+						<id>scala-compile-first</id>
+						<phase>initialize</phase>
+						<goals>
+							<goal>add-source</goal>
+							<goal>compile</goal>
+						</goals>
+					</execution>
+					<execution>
+						<id>scala-test-compile</id>
+						<phase>process-test-resources</phase>
+						<goals>
+							<goal>testCompile</goal>
+						</goals>
+					</execution>
+				</executions>
+				<configuration>
+					<scalaVersion>${scala.version}</scalaVersion>
+					<addScalacArgs>-target:jvm-1.8</addScalacArgs>
+				</configuration>
+			</plugin>
+		</plugins>
+
+	</build>
+
+	<dependencies>
+		<dependency>
+			<groupId>edu.cmu</groupId>
+			<artifactId>secondstring</artifactId>
+		</dependency>
+		<dependency>
+			<groupId>com.google.guava</groupId>
+			<artifactId>guava</artifactId>
+		</dependency>
+		<dependency>
+			<groupId>com.google.code.gson</groupId>
+			<artifactId>gson</artifactId>
+		</dependency>
+		<dependency>
+			<groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>
+			<artifactId>commons-lang3</artifactId>
+		</dependency>
+		<dependency>
+			<groupId>commons-io</groupId>
+			<artifactId>commons-io</artifactId>
+		</dependency>
+
+		<dependency>
+			<groupId>org.antlr</groupId>
+			<artifactId>stringtemplate</artifactId>
+		</dependency>
+		<dependency>
+			<groupId>commons-logging</groupId>
+			<artifactId>commons-logging</artifactId>
+		</dependency>
+		<dependency>
+			<groupId>org.reflections</groupId>
+			<artifactId>reflections</artifactId>
+		</dependency>
+		<dependency>
+			<groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
+			<artifactId>jackson-databind</artifactId>
+		</dependency>
+		<dependency>
+			<groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>
+			<artifactId>commons-math3</artifactId>
+		</dependency>
+
+		<dependency>
+			<groupId>com.jayway.jsonpath</groupId>
+			<artifactId>json-path</artifactId>
+		</dependency>
+
+		<dependency>
+			<groupId>com.ibm.icu</groupId>
+			<artifactId>icu4j</artifactId>
+		</dependency>
+
+	</dependencies>
+
+</project>

dhp-pace-core/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/pace/clustering/AbstractClusteringFunction.java

@@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
+
+package eu.dnetlib.pace.clustering;
+
+import java.util.Collection;
+import java.util.HashSet;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.Map;
+import java.util.stream.Collectors;
+
+import org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils;
+
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.common.AbstractPaceFunctions;
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.config.Config;
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.model.Field;
+
+public abstract class AbstractClusteringFunction extends AbstractPaceFunctions implements ClusteringFunction {
+
+	protected Map<String, Integer> params;
+
+	public AbstractClusteringFunction(final Map<String, Integer> params) {
+		this.params = params;
+	}
+
+	protected abstract Collection<String> doApply(Config conf, String s);
+
+	@Override
+	public Collection<String> apply(Config conf, List<Field> fields) {
+		return fields
+			.stream()
+			.filter(f -> !f.isEmpty())
+			.map(Field::stringValue)
+			.map(this::normalize)
+			.map(s -> filterAllStopWords(s))
+			.map(s -> doApply(conf, s))
+			.map(c -> filterBlacklisted(c, ngramBlacklist))
+			.flatMap(c -> c.stream())
+			.filter(StringUtils::isNotBlank)
+			.collect(Collectors.toCollection(HashSet::new));
+	}
+
+	public Map<String, Integer> getParams() {
+		return params;
+	}
+
+	protected Integer param(String name) {
+		return params.get(name);
+	}
+}

dhp-pace-core/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/pace/clustering/Acronyms.java

@@ -0,0 +1,51 @@
+
+package eu.dnetlib.pace.clustering;
+
+import java.util.Collection;
+import java.util.Map;
+import java.util.Set;
+import java.util.StringTokenizer;
+
+import com.google.common.collect.Sets;
+
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.config.Config;
+
+@ClusteringClass("acronyms")
+public class Acronyms extends AbstractClusteringFunction {
+
+	public Acronyms(Map<String, Integer> params) {
+		super(params);
+	}
+
+	@Override
+	protected Collection<String> doApply(Config conf, String s) {
+		return extractAcronyms(s, param("max"), param("minLen"), param("maxLen"));
+	}
+
+	private Set<String> extractAcronyms(final String s, int maxAcronyms, int minLen, int maxLen) {
+
+		final Set<String> acronyms = Sets.newLinkedHashSet();
+
+		for (int i = 0; i < maxAcronyms; i++) {
+
+			final StringTokenizer st = new StringTokenizer(s);
+			final StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
+
+			while (st.hasMoreTokens()) {
+				final String token = st.nextToken();
+				if (sb.length() > maxLen) {
+					break;
+				}
+				if (token.length() > 1 && i < token.length()) {
+					sb.append(token.charAt(i));
+				}
+			}
+			String acronym = sb.toString();
+			if (acronym.length() > minLen) {
+				acronyms.add(acronym);
+			}
+		}
+		return acronyms;
+	}
+
+}

dhp-pace-core/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/pace/clustering/BlacklistAwareClusteringCombiner.java

@@ -0,0 +1,60 @@
+
+package eu.dnetlib.pace.clustering;
+
+import java.util.Collection;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.Map;
+import java.util.Map.Entry;
+import java.util.regex.Pattern;
+
+import com.google.common.collect.Maps;
+
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.config.Config;
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.model.Document;
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.model.Field;
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.model.FieldListImpl;
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.model.MapDocument;
+
+public class BlacklistAwareClusteringCombiner extends ClusteringCombiner {
+
+	public static Collection<String> filterAndCombine(final MapDocument a, final Config conf) {
+		Document filtered = filter(a, conf.blacklists());
+		return combine(filtered, conf);
+	}
+
+	private static MapDocument filter(final MapDocument a, final Map<String, List<Pattern>> blacklists) {
+		if (blacklists == null || blacklists.isEmpty()) {
+			return a;
+		}
+
+		final Map<String, Field> filtered = Maps.newHashMap(a.getFieldMap());
+
+		for (final Entry<String, List<Pattern>> e : blacklists.entrySet()) {
+			Field fields = a.getFieldMap().get(e.getKey());
+			if (fields != null) {
+				final FieldListImpl fl = new FieldListImpl();
+
+				for (Field f : fields) {
+					if (!isBlackListed(f.stringValue(), e.getValue())) {
+						fl.add(f);
+					}
+				}
+
+				filtered.put(e.getKey(), fl);
+			}
+		}
+
+		return new MapDocument(a.getIdentifier(), filtered);
+	}
+
+	private static boolean isBlackListed(String value, List<Pattern> blacklist) {
+		for (Pattern pattern : blacklist) {
+			if (pattern.matcher(value).matches()) {
+				return true;
+			}
+		}
+
+		return false;
+	}
+
+}

dhp-pace-core/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/pace/clustering/ClusteringClass.java

@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+
+package eu.dnetlib.pace.clustering;
+
+import java.lang.annotation.ElementType;
+import java.lang.annotation.Retention;
+import java.lang.annotation.RetentionPolicy;
+import java.lang.annotation.Target;
+
+@Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME)
+@Target(ElementType.TYPE)
+public @interface ClusteringClass {
+
+	public String value();
+}

dhp-pace-core/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/pace/clustering/ClusteringCombiner.java

@@ -0,0 +1,64 @@
+
+package eu.dnetlib.pace.clustering;
+
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.Collection;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.stream.Collectors;
+
+import org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils;
+
+import com.google.common.collect.Sets;
+
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.config.Config;
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.model.ClusteringDef;
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.model.Document;
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.model.Field;
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.model.FieldValueImpl;
+
+public class ClusteringCombiner {
+
+	private static String SEPARATOR = ":";
+	private static String COLLAPSE_ON = "collapseOn";
+
+	public static Collection<String> combine(final Document a, final Config conf) {
+		final Collection<String> res = Sets.newLinkedHashSet();
+		for (final ClusteringDef cd : conf.clusterings()) {
+			for (final String fieldName : cd.getFields()) {
+				String prefix = getPrefix(cd, fieldName);
+
+				Field values = a.values(fieldName);
+				List<Field> fields = new ArrayList<>();
+
+				if (values instanceof FieldValueImpl) {
+					fields.add(values);
+				} else {
+					fields.addAll((List<Field>) values);
+				}
+
+				res
+					.addAll(
+						cd
+							.clusteringFunction()
+							.apply(conf, fields)
+							.stream()
+							.map(k -> prefix + SEPARATOR + k)
+							.collect(Collectors.toList()));
+			}
+		}
+		return res;
+	}
+
+	private static String getPrefix(ClusteringDef cd, String fieldName) {
+		return cd.getName() + SEPARATOR +
+			cd
+				.getParams()
+				.keySet()
+				.stream()
+				.filter(k -> k.contains(COLLAPSE_ON))
+				.findFirst()
+				.map(k -> StringUtils.substringAfter(k, SEPARATOR))
+				.orElse(fieldName);
+	}
+
+}

dhp-pace-core/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/pace/clustering/ClusteringFunction.java

@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+
+package eu.dnetlib.pace.clustering;
+
+import java.util.Collection;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.Map;
+
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.config.Config;
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.model.Field;
+
+public interface ClusteringFunction {
+
+	public Collection<String> apply(Config config, List<Field> fields);
+
+	public Map<String, Integer> getParams();
+
+}

dhp-pace-core/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/pace/clustering/ImmutableFieldValue.java

@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+
+package eu.dnetlib.pace.clustering;
+
+import java.util.Collection;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.Map;
+
+import com.google.common.collect.Lists;
+
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.config.Config;
+
+@ClusteringClass("immutablefieldvalue")
+public class ImmutableFieldValue extends AbstractClusteringFunction {
+
+	public ImmutableFieldValue(final Map<String, Integer> params) {
+		super(params);
+	}
+
+	@Override
+	protected Collection<String> doApply(final Config conf, final String s) {
+		final List<String> res = Lists.newArrayList();
+
+		res.add(s);
+
+		return res;
+	}
+
+}

dhp-pace-core/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/pace/clustering/KeywordsClustering.java

@@ -0,0 +1,57 @@
+
+package eu.dnetlib.pace.clustering;
+
+import java.util.*;
+import java.util.stream.Collectors;
+
+import org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils;
+
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.common.AbstractPaceFunctions;
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.config.Config;
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.model.Field;
+
+@ClusteringClass("keywordsclustering")
+public class KeywordsClustering extends AbstractClusteringFunction {
+
+	public KeywordsClustering(Map<String, Integer> params) {
+		super(params);
+	}
+
+	@Override
+	protected Collection<String> doApply(final Config conf, String s) {
+
+		// takes city codes and keywords codes without duplicates
+		Set<String> keywords = getKeywords(s, conf.translationMap(), params.getOrDefault("windowSize", 4));
+		Set<String> cities = getCities(s, params.getOrDefault("windowSize", 4));
+
+		// list of combination to return as result
+		final Collection<String> combinations = new LinkedHashSet<String>();
+
+		for (String keyword : keywordsToCodes(keywords, conf.translationMap())) {
+			for (String city : citiesToCodes(cities)) {
+				combinations.add(keyword + "-" + city);
+				if (combinations.size() >= params.getOrDefault("max", 2)) {
+					return combinations;
+				}
+			}
+		}
+
+		return combinations;
+	}
+
+	@Override
+	public Collection<String> apply(final Config conf, List<Field> fields) {
+		return fields
+			.stream()
+			.filter(f -> !f.isEmpty())
+			.map(Field::stringValue)
+			.map(this::cleanup)
+			.map(this::normalize)
+			.map(s -> filterAllStopWords(s))
+			.map(s -> doApply(conf, s))
+			.map(c -> filterBlacklisted(c, ngramBlacklist))
+			.flatMap(c -> c.stream())
+			.filter(StringUtils::isNotBlank)
+			.collect(Collectors.toCollection(HashSet::new));
+	}
+}

dhp-pace-core/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/pace/clustering/LastNameFirstInitial.java

@@ -0,0 +1,81 @@
+
+package eu.dnetlib.pace.clustering;
+
+import java.util.*;
+import java.util.stream.Collectors;
+
+import org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils;
+
+import com.google.common.collect.Lists;
+
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.config.Config;
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.model.Field;
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.model.Person;
+
+@ClusteringClass("lnfi")
+public class LastNameFirstInitial extends AbstractClusteringFunction {
+
+	private boolean DEFAULT_AGGRESSIVE = true;
+
+	public LastNameFirstInitial(final Map<String, Integer> params) {
+		super(params);
+	}
+
+	@Override
+	public Collection<String> apply(Config conf, List<Field> fields) {
+		return fields
+			.stream()
+			.filter(f -> !f.isEmpty())
+			.map(Field::stringValue)
+			.map(this::normalize)
+			.map(s -> doApply(conf, s))
+			.map(c -> filterBlacklisted(c, ngramBlacklist))
+			.flatMap(c -> c.stream())
+			.filter(StringUtils::isNotBlank)
+			.collect(Collectors.toCollection(HashSet::new));
+	}
+
+	@Override
+	protected String normalize(final String s) {
+		return fixAliases(transliterate(nfd(unicodeNormalization(s))))
+			// do not compact the regexes in a single expression, would cause StackOverflowError in case of large input
+			// strings
+			.replaceAll("[^ \\w]+", "")
+			.replaceAll("(\\p{InCombiningDiacriticalMarks})+", "")
+			.replaceAll("(\\p{Punct})+", " ")
+			.replaceAll("(\\d)+", " ")
+			.replaceAll("(\\n)+", " ")
+			.trim();
+	}
+
+	@Override
+	protected Collection<String> doApply(final Config conf, final String s) {
+
+		final List<String> res = Lists.newArrayList();
+
+		final boolean aggressive = (Boolean) (getParams().containsKey("aggressive") ? getParams().get("aggressive")
+			: DEFAULT_AGGRESSIVE);
+
+		Person p = new Person(s, aggressive);
+
+		if (p.isAccurate()) {
+			String lastName = p.getNormalisedSurname().toLowerCase();
+			String firstInitial = p.getNormalisedFirstName().toLowerCase().substring(0, 1);
+
+			res.add(firstInitial.concat(lastName));
+		} else { // is not accurate, meaning it has no defined name and surname
+			List<String> fullname = Arrays.asList(p.getNormalisedFullname().split(" "));
+			if (fullname.size() == 1) {
+				res.add(p.getNormalisedFullname().toLowerCase());
+			} else if (fullname.size() == 2) {
+				res.add(fullname.get(0).substring(0, 1).concat(fullname.get(1)).toLowerCase());
+				res.add(fullname.get(1).substring(0, 1).concat(fullname.get(0)).toLowerCase());
+			} else {
+				res.add(fullname.get(0).substring(0, 1).concat(fullname.get(fullname.size() - 1)).toLowerCase());
+				res.add(fullname.get(fullname.size() - 1).substring(0, 1).concat(fullname.get(0)).toLowerCase());
+			}
+		}
+
+		return res;
+	}
+}

dhp-pace-core/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/pace/clustering/LowercaseClustering.java

@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+
+package eu.dnetlib.pace.clustering;
+
+import java.util.Collection;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.Map;
+
+import org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils;
+
+import com.google.common.collect.Lists;
+import com.google.common.collect.Sets;
+
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.config.Config;
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.model.Field;
+
+@ClusteringClass("lowercase")
+public class LowercaseClustering extends AbstractClusteringFunction {
+
+	public LowercaseClustering(final Map<String, Integer> params) {
+		super(params);
+	}
+
+	@Override
+	public Collection<String> apply(Config conf, List<Field> fields) {
+		Collection<String> c = Sets.newLinkedHashSet();
+		for (Field f : fields) {
+			c.addAll(doApply(conf, f.stringValue()));
+		}
+		return c;
+	}
+
+	@Override
+	protected Collection<String> doApply(final Config conf, final String s) {
+		if (StringUtils.isBlank(s)) {
+			return Lists.newArrayList();
+		}
+		return Lists.newArrayList(s.toLowerCase().trim());
+	}
+}

dhp-pace-core/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/pace/clustering/NGramUtils.java

@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+
+package eu.dnetlib.pace.clustering;
+
+import java.util.Set;
+
+import org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils;
+
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.common.AbstractPaceFunctions;
+
+public class NGramUtils extends AbstractPaceFunctions {
+
+	private static final int SIZE = 100;
+
+	private static Set<String> stopwords = AbstractPaceFunctions
+		.loadFromClasspath("/eu/dnetlib/pace/config/stopwords_en.txt");
+
+	public static String cleanupForOrdering(String s) {
+		NGramUtils utils = new NGramUtils();
+		return (utils.filterStopWords(utils.normalize(s), stopwords) + StringUtils.repeat(" ", SIZE))
+			.substring(0, SIZE)
+			.replaceAll(" ", "");
+	}
+
+}

dhp-pace-core/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/pace/clustering/NgramPairs.java

@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+
+package eu.dnetlib.pace.clustering;
+
+import java.util.Collection;
+import java.util.HashMap;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.Map;
+
+import com.google.common.collect.Lists;
+
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.config.Config;
+
+@ClusteringClass("ngrampairs")
+public class NgramPairs extends Ngrams {
+
+	public NgramPairs(Map<String, Integer> params) {
+		super(params);
+	}
+
+	@Override
+	protected Collection<String> doApply(Config conf, String s) {
+		return ngramPairs(Lists.newArrayList(getNgrams(s, param("ngramLen"), param("max") * 2, 1, 2)), param("max"));
+	}
+
+	protected Collection<String> ngramPairs(final List<String> ngrams, int maxNgrams) {
+		Collection<String> res = Lists.newArrayList();
+		int j = 0;
+		for (int i = 0; i < ngrams.size() && res.size() < maxNgrams; i++) {
+			if (++j >= ngrams.size()) {
+				break;
+			}
+			res.add(ngrams.get(i) + ngrams.get(j));
+			// System.out.println("-- " + concatNgrams);
+		}
+		return res;
+	}
+
+}

dhp-pace-core/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/pace/clustering/Ngrams.java

@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
+
+package eu.dnetlib.pace.clustering;
+
+import java.util.*;
+
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.config.Config;
+
+@ClusteringClass("ngrams")
+public class Ngrams extends AbstractClusteringFunction {
+
+	public Ngrams(Map<String, Integer> params) {
+		super(params);
+	}
+
+	@Override
+	protected Collection<String> doApply(Config conf, String s) {
+		return getNgrams(s, param("ngramLen"), param("max"), param("maxPerToken"), param("minNgramLen"));
+	}
+
+	protected Collection<String> getNgrams(String s, int ngramLen, int max, int maxPerToken, int minNgramLen) {
+
+		final Collection<String> ngrams = new LinkedHashSet<String>();
+		final StringTokenizer st = new StringTokenizer(s);
+
+		while (st.hasMoreTokens()) {
+			final String token = st.nextToken();
+			if (!token.isEmpty()) {
+
+				for (int i = 0; i < maxPerToken && ngramLen + i <= token.length(); i++) {
+					String ngram = (token + "    ").substring(i, ngramLen + i).trim();
+					if (ngrams.size() >= max) {
+						return ngrams;
+					}
+					if (ngram.length() >= minNgramLen) {
+						ngrams.add(ngram);
+					}
+				}
+			}
+		}
+		// System.out.println(ngrams + " n: " + ngrams.size());
+		return ngrams;
+	}
+
+}

dhp-pace-core/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/pace/clustering/PersonClustering.java

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+
+package eu.dnetlib.pace.clustering;
+
+import java.util.Collection;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.Map;
+import java.util.Set;
+
+import org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils;
+
+import com.google.common.collect.Sets;
+
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.common.AbstractPaceFunctions;
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.config.Config;
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.model.Field;
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.model.Person;
+
+@ClusteringClass("personClustering")
+public class PersonClustering extends AbstractPaceFunctions implements ClusteringFunction {
+
+	private Map<String, Integer> params;
+
+	private static final int MAX_TOKENS = 5;
+
+	public PersonClustering(final Map<String, Integer> params) {
+		this.params = params;
+	}
+
+	@Override
+	public Collection<String> apply(final Config conf, final List<Field> fields) {
+		final Set<String> hashes = Sets.newHashSet();
+
+		for (final Field f : fields) {
+
+			final Person person = new Person(f.stringValue(), false);
+
+			if (StringUtils.isNotBlank(person.getNormalisedFirstName())
+				&& StringUtils.isNotBlank(person.getNormalisedSurname())) {
+				hashes.add(firstLC(person.getNormalisedFirstName()) + person.getNormalisedSurname().toLowerCase());
+			} else {
+				for (final String token1 : tokens(f.stringValue(), MAX_TOKENS)) {
+					for (final String token2 : tokens(f.stringValue(), MAX_TOKENS)) {
+						if (!token1.equals(token2)) {
+							hashes.add(firstLC(token1) + token2);
+						}
+					}
+				}
+			}
+		}
+
+		return hashes;
+	}
+
+//	@Override
+//	public Collection<String> apply(final List<Field> fields) {
+//		final Set<String> hashes = Sets.newHashSet();
+//
+//		for (final Field f : fields) {
+//
+//			final GTAuthor gta = GTAuthor.fromOafJson(f.stringValue());
+//
+//			final Author a = gta.getAuthor();
+//
+//			if (StringUtils.isNotBlank(a.getFirstname()) && StringUtils.isNotBlank(a.getSecondnames())) {
+//				hashes.add(firstLC(a.getFirstname()) + a.getSecondnames().toLowerCase());
+//			} else {
+//				for (final String token1 : tokens(f.stringValue(), MAX_TOKENS)) {
+//					for (final String token2 : tokens(f.stringValue(), MAX_TOKENS)) {
+//						if (!token1.equals(token2)) {
+//							hashes.add(firstLC(token1) + token2);
+//						}
+//					}
+//				}
+//			}
+//		}
+//
+//		return hashes;
+//	}
+
+	@Override
+	public Map<String, Integer> getParams() {
+		return params;
+	}
+
+}

dhp-pace-core/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/pace/clustering/PersonHash.java

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+
+package eu.dnetlib.pace.clustering;
+
+import java.util.Collection;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.Map;
+
+import com.google.common.collect.Lists;
+
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.config.Config;
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.model.Person;
+
+@ClusteringClass("personHash")
+public class PersonHash extends AbstractClusteringFunction {
+
+	private boolean DEFAULT_AGGRESSIVE = false;
+
+	public PersonHash(final Map<String, Integer> params) {
+		super(params);
+	}
+
+	@Override
+	protected Collection<String> doApply(final Config conf, final String s) {
+		final List<String> res = Lists.newArrayList();
+
+		final boolean aggressive = (Boolean) (getParams().containsKey("aggressive") ? getParams().get("aggressive")
+			: DEFAULT_AGGRESSIVE);
+
+		res.add(new Person(s, aggressive).hash());
+
+		return res;
+	}
+
+}

dhp-pace-core/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/pace/clustering/RandomClusteringFunction.java

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+
+package eu.dnetlib.pace.clustering;
+
+import java.util.Collection;
+import java.util.Map;
+
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.config.Config;
+
+public class RandomClusteringFunction extends AbstractClusteringFunction {
+
+	public RandomClusteringFunction(Map<String, Integer> params) {
+		super(params);
+	}
+
+	@Override
+	protected Collection<String> doApply(final Config conf, String s) {
+		return null;
+	}
+
+}

dhp-pace-core/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/pace/clustering/SortedNgramPairs.java

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+
+package eu.dnetlib.pace.clustering;
+
+import java.util.*;
+
+import com.google.common.base.Joiner;
+import com.google.common.base.Splitter;
+import com.google.common.collect.Lists;
+
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.config.Config;
+
+@ClusteringClass("sortedngrampairs")
+public class SortedNgramPairs extends NgramPairs {
+
+	public SortedNgramPairs(Map<String, Integer> params) {
+		super(params);
+	}
+
+	@Override
+	protected Collection<String> doApply(Config conf, String s) {
+
+		final List<String> tokens = Lists.newArrayList(Splitter.on(" ").omitEmptyStrings().trimResults().split(s));
+
+		Collections.sort(tokens);
+
+		return ngramPairs(
+			Lists.newArrayList(getNgrams(Joiner.on(" ").join(tokens), param("ngramLen"), param("max") * 2, 1, 2)),
+			param("max"));
+	}
+
+}

dhp-pace-core/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/pace/clustering/SpaceTrimmingFieldValue.java

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+
+package eu.dnetlib.pace.clustering;
+
+import java.util.Collection;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.Map;
+
+import org.apache.commons.lang3.RandomStringUtils;
+import org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils;
+
+import com.google.common.collect.Lists;
+
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.config.Config;
+
+@ClusteringClass("spacetrimmingfieldvalue")
+public class SpaceTrimmingFieldValue extends AbstractClusteringFunction {
+
+	public SpaceTrimmingFieldValue(final Map<String, Integer> params) {
+		super(params);
+	}
+
+	@Override
+	protected Collection<String> doApply(final Config conf, final String s) {
+		final List<String> res = Lists.newArrayList();
+
+		res
+			.add(
+				StringUtils.isBlank(s) ? RandomStringUtils.random(getParams().get("randomLength"))
+					: s.toLowerCase().replaceAll("\\s+", ""));
+
+		return res;
+	}
+
+}

dhp-pace-core/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/pace/clustering/SuffixPrefix.java

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+
+package eu.dnetlib.pace.clustering;
+
+import java.util.Collection;
+import java.util.Map;
+import java.util.Set;
+
+import com.google.common.collect.Sets;
+
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.config.Config;
+
+@ClusteringClass("suffixprefix")
+public class SuffixPrefix extends AbstractClusteringFunction {
+
+	public SuffixPrefix(Map<String, Integer> params) {
+		super(params);
+	}
+
+	@Override
+	protected Collection<String> doApply(Config conf, String s) {
+		return suffixPrefix(s, param("len"), param("max"));
+	}
+
+	private Collection<String> suffixPrefix(String s, int len, int max) {
+		final Set<String> bigrams = Sets.newLinkedHashSet();
+		int i = 0;
+		while (++i < s.length() && bigrams.size() < max) {
+			int j = s.indexOf(" ", i);
+
+			int offset = j + len + 1 < s.length() ? j + len + 1 : s.length();
+
+			if (j - len > 0) {
+				String bigram = s.substring(j - len, offset).replaceAll(" ", "").trim();
+				if (bigram.length() >= 4) {
+					bigrams.add(bigram);
+				}
+			}
+		}
+		return bigrams;
+	}
+
+}

dhp-pace-core/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/pace/clustering/UrlClustering.java

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+
+package eu.dnetlib.pace.clustering;
+
+import java.net.MalformedURLException;
+import java.net.URL;
+import java.util.Collection;
+import java.util.HashSet;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.Map;
+import java.util.stream.Collectors;
+
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.common.AbstractPaceFunctions;
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.config.Config;
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.model.Field;
+
+@ClusteringClass("urlclustering")
+public class UrlClustering extends AbstractPaceFunctions implements ClusteringFunction {
+
+	protected Map<String, Integer> params;
+
+	public UrlClustering(final Map<String, Integer> params) {
+		this.params = params;
+	}
+
+	@Override
+	public Collection<String> apply(final Config conf, List<Field> fields) {
+		try {
+			return fields
+				.stream()
+				.filter(f -> !f.isEmpty())
+				.map(Field::stringValue)
+				.map(this::asUrl)
+				.map(URL::getHost)
+				.collect(Collectors.toCollection(HashSet::new));
+		} catch (IllegalStateException e) {
+			return new HashSet<>();
+		}
+	}
+
+	@Override
+	public Map<String, Integer> getParams() {
+		return null;
+	}
+
+	private URL asUrl(String value) {
+		try {
+			return new URL(value);
+		} catch (MalformedURLException e) {
+			// should not happen as checked by pace typing
+			throw new IllegalStateException("invalid URL: " + value);
+		}
+	}
+
+}

dhp-pace-core/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/pace/clustering/WordsStatsSuffixPrefixChain.java

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+
+package eu.dnetlib.pace.clustering;
+
+import java.util.*;
+import java.util.stream.Collectors;
+
+import com.google.common.collect.Sets;
+
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.config.Config;
+
+@ClusteringClass("wordsStatsSuffixPrefixChain")
+public class WordsStatsSuffixPrefixChain extends AbstractClusteringFunction {
+
+	public WordsStatsSuffixPrefixChain(Map<String, Integer> params) {
+		super(params);
+	}
+
+	@Override
+	protected Collection<String> doApply(Config conf, String s) {
+		return suffixPrefixChain(s, param("mod"));
+	}
+
+	private Collection<String> suffixPrefixChain(String s, int mod) {
+
+		// create the list of words from the string (remove short words)
+		List<String> wordsList = Arrays
+			.stream(s.split(" "))
+			.filter(si -> si.length() > 3)
+			.collect(Collectors.toList());
+
+		final int words = wordsList.size();
+		final int letters = s.length();
+
+		// create the prefix: number of words + number of letters/mod
+		String prefix = words + "-" + letters / mod + "-";
+
+		return doSuffixPrefixChain(wordsList, prefix);
+
+	}
+
+	private Collection<String> doSuffixPrefixChain(List<String> wordsList, String prefix) {
+
+		Set<String> set = Sets.newLinkedHashSet();
+		switch (wordsList.size()) {
+			case 0:
+			case 1:
+				break;
+			case 2:
+				set
+					.add(
+						prefix +
+							suffix(wordsList.get(0), 3) +
+							prefix(wordsList.get(1), 3));
+
+				set
+					.add(
+						prefix +
+							prefix(wordsList.get(0), 3) +
+							suffix(wordsList.get(1), 3));
+
+				break;
+			default:
+				set
+					.add(
+						prefix +
+							suffix(wordsList.get(0), 3) +
+							prefix(wordsList.get(1), 3) +
+							suffix(wordsList.get(2), 3));
+
+				set
+					.add(
+						prefix +
+							prefix(wordsList.get(0), 3) +
+							suffix(wordsList.get(1), 3) +
+							prefix(wordsList.get(2), 3));
+				break;
+		}
+
+		return set;
+
+	}
+
+	private String suffix(String s, int len) {
+		return s.substring(s.length() - len);
+	}
+
+	private String prefix(String s, int len) {
+		return s.substring(0, len);
+	}
+
+}

dhp-pace-core/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/pace/clustering/WordsSuffixPrefix.java

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+
+package eu.dnetlib.pace.clustering;
+
+import java.util.Collection;
+import java.util.Map;
+import java.util.Set;
+
+import com.google.common.collect.Sets;
+
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.config.Config;
+
+@ClusteringClass("wordssuffixprefix")
+public class WordsSuffixPrefix extends AbstractClusteringFunction {
+
+	public WordsSuffixPrefix(Map<String, Integer> params) {
+		super(params);
+	}
+
+	@Override
+	protected Collection<String> doApply(Config conf, String s) {
+		return suffixPrefix(s, param("len"), param("max"));
+	}
+
+	private Collection<String> suffixPrefix(String s, int len, int max) {
+
+		final int words = s.split(" ").length;
+
+		// adjust the token length according to the number of words
+		switch (words) {
+			case 1:
+				return Sets.newLinkedHashSet();
+			case 2:
+				return doSuffixPrefix(s, len + 2, max, words);
+			case 3:
+				return doSuffixPrefix(s, len + 1, max, words);
+			default:
+				return doSuffixPrefix(s, len, max, words);
+		}
+	}
+
+	private Collection<String> doSuffixPrefix(String s, int len, int max, int words) {
+		final Set<String> bigrams = Sets.newLinkedHashSet();
+		int i = 0;
+		while (++i < s.length() && bigrams.size() < max) {
+			int j = s.indexOf(" ", i);
+
+			int offset = j + len + 1 < s.length() ? j + len + 1 : s.length();
+
+			if (j - len > 0) {
+				String bigram = s.substring(j - len, offset).replaceAll(" ", "").trim();
+				if (bigram.length() >= 4) {
+					bigrams.add(words + bigram);
+				}
+			}
+		}
+		return bigrams;
+	}
+
+}

dhp-pace-core/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/pace/common/AbstractPaceFunctions.java

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+
+package eu.dnetlib.pace.common;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.StringWriter;
+import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;
+import java.text.Normalizer;
+import java.util.*;
+import java.util.regex.Matcher;
+import java.util.regex.Pattern;
+import java.util.stream.Collectors;
+
+import org.apache.commons.io.IOUtils;
+import org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils;
+
+import com.google.common.base.Joiner;
+import com.google.common.base.Splitter;
+import com.google.common.collect.Iterables;
+import com.google.common.collect.Sets;
+import com.ibm.icu.text.Transliterator;
+
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.clustering.NGramUtils;
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.model.Field;
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.model.FieldList;
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.model.FieldListImpl;
+
+/**
+ * Set of common functions for the framework
+ *
+ * @author claudio
+ */
+public abstract class AbstractPaceFunctions {
+
+	// city map to be used when translating the city names into codes
+	private static Map<String, String> cityMap = AbstractPaceFunctions
+		.loadMapFromClasspath("/eu/dnetlib/pace/config/city_map.csv");
+
+	// list of stopwords in different languages
+	protected static Set<String> stopwords_gr = loadFromClasspath("/eu/dnetlib/pace/config/stopwords_gr.txt");
+	protected static Set<String> stopwords_en = loadFromClasspath("/eu/dnetlib/pace/config/stopwords_en.txt");
+	protected static Set<String> stopwords_de = loadFromClasspath("/eu/dnetlib/pace/config/stopwords_de.txt");
+	protected static Set<String> stopwords_es = loadFromClasspath("/eu/dnetlib/pace/config/stopwords_es.txt");
+	protected static Set<String> stopwords_fr = loadFromClasspath("/eu/dnetlib/pace/config/stopwords_fr.txt");
+	protected static Set<String> stopwords_it = loadFromClasspath("/eu/dnetlib/pace/config/stopwords_it.txt");
+	protected static Set<String> stopwords_pt = loadFromClasspath("/eu/dnetlib/pace/config/stopwords_pt.txt");
+
+	// transliterator
+	protected static Transliterator transliterator = Transliterator.getInstance("Any-Eng");
+
+	// blacklist of ngrams: to avoid generic keys
+	protected static Set<String> ngramBlacklist = loadFromClasspath("/eu/dnetlib/pace/config/ngram_blacklist.txt");
+
+	// html regex for normalization
+	public final String HTML_REGEX = "<[^>]*>";
+
+	private static final String alpha = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789 ";
+	private static final String aliases_from = "⁰¹²³⁴⁵⁶⁷⁸⁹⁺⁻⁼⁽⁾ⁿ₀₁₂₃₄₅₆₇₈₉₊₋₌₍₎àáâäæãåāèéêëēėęəîïíīįìôöòóœøōõûüùúūßśšłžźżçćčñń";
+	private static final String aliases_to = "0123456789+-=()n0123456789+-=()aaaaaaaaeeeeeeeeiiiiiioooooooouuuuussslzzzcccnn";
+
+	// doi prefix for normalization
+	public final String DOI_PREFIX = "(https?:\\/\\/dx\\.doi\\.org\\/)|(doi:)";
+
+	private Pattern numberPattern = Pattern.compile("-?\\d+(\\.\\d+)?");
+
+	private Pattern hexUnicodePattern = Pattern.compile("\\\\u(\\p{XDigit}{4})");
+
+	protected final static FieldList EMPTY_FIELD = new FieldListImpl();
+
+	protected String concat(final List<String> l) {
+		return Joiner.on(" ").skipNulls().join(l);
+	}
+
+	protected String cleanup(final String s) {
+
+		final String s1 = s.replaceAll(HTML_REGEX, "");
+		final String s2 = unicodeNormalization(s1.toLowerCase());
+		final String s3 = nfd(s2);
+		final String s4 = fixXML(s3);
+		final String s5 = s4.replaceAll("([0-9]+)", " $1 ");
+		final String s6 = transliterate(s5);
+		final String s7 = fixAliases(s6);
+		final String s8 = s7.replaceAll("[^\\p{ASCII}]", "");
+		final String s9 = s8.replaceAll("[\\p{Punct}]", " ");
+		final String s10 = s9.replaceAll("\\n", " ");
+		final String s11 = s10.replaceAll("(?m)\\s+", " ");
+		final String s12 = s11.trim();
+		return s12;
+	}
+
+	protected String fixXML(final String a) {
+
+		return a
+			.replaceAll("&ndash;", " ")
+			.replaceAll("&amp;", " ")
+			.replaceAll("&quot;", " ")
+			.replaceAll("&minus;", " ");
+	}
+
+	protected boolean checkNumbers(final String a, final String b) {
+		final String numbersA = getNumbers(a);
+		final String numbersB = getNumbers(b);
+		final String romansA = getRomans(a);
+		final String romansB = getRomans(b);
+		return !numbersA.equals(numbersB) || !romansA.equals(romansB);
+	}
+
+	protected String getRomans(final String s) {
+		final StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
+		for (final String t : s.split(" ")) {
+			sb.append(isRoman(t) ? t : "");
+		}
+		return sb.toString();
+	}
+
+	protected boolean isRoman(final String s) {
+		return s
+			.replaceAll("^M{0,4}(CM|CD|D?C{0,3})(XC|XL|L?X{0,3})(IX|IV|V?I{0,3})$", "qwertyuiop")
+			.equals("qwertyuiop");
+	}
+
+	protected String getNumbers(final String s) {
+		final StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
+		for (final String t : s.split(" ")) {
+			sb.append(isNumber(t) ? t : "");
+		}
+		return sb.toString();
+	}
+
+	public boolean isNumber(String strNum) {
+		if (strNum == null) {
+			return false;
+		}
+		return numberPattern.matcher(strNum).matches();
+	}
+
+	protected static String fixAliases(final String s) {
+		final StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
+
+		s.chars().forEach(ch -> {
+			final int i = StringUtils.indexOf(aliases_from, ch);
+			sb.append(i >= 0 ? aliases_to.charAt(i) : (char) ch);
+		});
+
+		return sb.toString();
+	}
+
+	protected static String transliterate(final String s) {
+		try {
+			return transliterator.transliterate(s);
+		} catch (Exception e) {
+			return s;
+		}
+	}
+
+	protected String removeSymbols(final String s) {
+		final StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
+
+		s.chars().forEach(ch -> {
+			sb.append(StringUtils.contains(alpha, ch) ? (char) ch : ' ');
+		});
+
+		return sb.toString().replaceAll("\\s+", " ");
+	}
+
+	protected String getFirstValue(final Field values) {
+		return (values != null) && !Iterables.isEmpty(values) ? Iterables.getFirst(values, EMPTY_FIELD).stringValue()
+			: "";
+	}
+
+	protected boolean notNull(final String s) {
+		return s != null;
+	}
+
+	protected String normalize(final String s) {
+		return fixAliases(transliterate(nfd(unicodeNormalization(s))))
+			.toLowerCase()
+			// do not compact the regexes in a single expression, would cause StackOverflowError in case of large input
+			// strings
+			.replaceAll("[^ \\w]+", "")
+			.replaceAll("(\\p{InCombiningDiacriticalMarks})+", "")
+			.replaceAll("(\\p{Punct})+", " ")
+			.replaceAll("(\\d)+", " ")
+			.replaceAll("(\\n)+", " ")
+			.trim();
+	}
+
+	public String nfd(final String s) {
+		return Normalizer.normalize(s, Normalizer.Form.NFD);
+	}
+
+	public String utf8(final String s) {
+		byte[] bytes = s.getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF_8);
+		return new String(bytes, StandardCharsets.UTF_8);
+	}
+
+	public String unicodeNormalization(final String s) {
+
+		Matcher m = hexUnicodePattern.matcher(s);
+		StringBuffer buf = new StringBuffer(s.length());
+		while (m.find()) {
+			String ch = String.valueOf((char) Integer.parseInt(m.group(1), 16));
+			m.appendReplacement(buf, Matcher.quoteReplacement(ch));
+		}
+		m.appendTail(buf);
+		return buf.toString();
+	}
+
+	protected String filterStopWords(final String s, final Set<String> stopwords) {
+		final StringTokenizer st = new StringTokenizer(s);
+		final StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
+		while (st.hasMoreTokens()) {
+			final String token = st.nextToken();
+			if (!stopwords.contains(token)) {
+				sb.append(token);
+				sb.append(" ");
+			}
+		}
+		return sb.toString().trim();
+	}
+
+	public String filterAllStopWords(String s) {
+
+		s = filterStopWords(s, stopwords_en);
+		s = filterStopWords(s, stopwords_de);
+		s = filterStopWords(s, stopwords_it);
+		s = filterStopWords(s, stopwords_fr);
+		s = filterStopWords(s, stopwords_pt);
+		s = filterStopWords(s, stopwords_es);
+		s = filterStopWords(s, stopwords_gr);
+
+		return s;
+	}
+
+	protected Collection<String> filterBlacklisted(final Collection<String> set, final Set<String> ngramBlacklist) {
+		final Set<String> newset = Sets.newLinkedHashSet();
+		for (final String s : set) {
+			if (!ngramBlacklist.contains(s)) {
+				newset.add(s);
+			}
+		}
+		return newset;
+	}
+
+	public static Set<String> loadFromClasspath(final String classpath) {
+
+		Transliterator transliterator = Transliterator.getInstance("Any-Eng");
+
+		final Set<String> h = Sets.newHashSet();
+		try {
+			for (final String s : IOUtils
+				.readLines(NGramUtils.class.getResourceAsStream(classpath), StandardCharsets.UTF_8)) {
+				h.add(fixAliases(transliterator.transliterate(s))); // transliteration of the stopwords
+			}
+		} catch (final Throwable e) {
+			return Sets.newHashSet();
+		}
+		return h;
+	}
+
+	public static Map<String, String> loadMapFromClasspath(final String classpath) {
+
+		Transliterator transliterator = Transliterator.getInstance("Any-Eng");
+
+		final Map<String, String> m = new HashMap<>();
+		try {
+			for (final String s : IOUtils
+				.readLines(AbstractPaceFunctions.class.getResourceAsStream(classpath), StandardCharsets.UTF_8)) {
+				// string is like this: code;word1;word2;word3
+				String[] line = s.split(";");
+				String value = line[0];
+				for (int i = 1; i < line.length; i++) {
+					m.put(fixAliases(transliterator.transliterate(line[i].toLowerCase())), value);
+				}
+			}
+		} catch (final Throwable e) {
+			return new HashMap<>();
+		}
+		return m;
+	}
+
+	public String removeKeywords(String s, Set<String> keywords) {
+
+		s = " " + s + " ";
+		for (String k : keywords) {
+			s = s.replaceAll(k.toLowerCase(), "");
+		}
+
+		return s.trim();
+	}
+
+	public double commonElementsPercentage(Set<String> s1, Set<String> s2) {
+
+		double longer = Math.max(s1.size(), s2.size());
+		return (double) s1.stream().filter(s2::contains).count() / longer;
+	}
+
+	// convert the set of keywords to codes
+	public Set<String> toCodes(Set<String> keywords, Map<String, String> translationMap) {
+		return keywords.stream().map(s -> translationMap.get(s)).collect(Collectors.toSet());
+	}
+
+	public Set<String> keywordsToCodes(Set<String> keywords, Map<String, String> translationMap) {
+		return toCodes(keywords, translationMap);
+	}
+
+	public Set<String> citiesToCodes(Set<String> keywords) {
+		return toCodes(keywords, cityMap);
+	}
+
+	protected String firstLC(final String s) {
+		return StringUtils.substring(s, 0, 1).toLowerCase();
+	}
+
+	protected Iterable<String> tokens(final String s, final int maxTokens) {
+		return Iterables.limit(Splitter.on(" ").omitEmptyStrings().trimResults().split(s), maxTokens);
+	}
+
+	public String normalizePid(String pid) {
+		return pid.toLowerCase().replaceAll(DOI_PREFIX, "");
+	}
+
+	// get the list of keywords into the input string
+	public Set<String> getKeywords(String s1, Map<String, String> translationMap, int windowSize) {
+
+		String s = s1;
+
+		List<String> tokens = Arrays.asList(s.toLowerCase().split(" "));
+
+		Set<String> codes = new HashSet<>();
+
+		if (tokens.size() < windowSize)
+			windowSize = tokens.size();
+
+		int length = windowSize;
+
+		while (length != 0) {
+
+			for (int i = 0; i <= tokens.size() - length; i++) {
+				String candidate = concat(tokens.subList(i, i + length));
+				if (translationMap.containsKey(candidate)) {
+					codes.add(candidate);
+					s = s.replace(candidate, "").trim();
+				}
+			}
+
+			tokens = Arrays.asList(s.split(" "));
+			length -= 1;
+		}
+
+		return codes;
+	}
+
+	public Set<String> getCities(String s1, int windowSize) {
+		return getKeywords(s1, cityMap, windowSize);
+	}
+
+	public static <T> String readFromClasspath(final String filename, final Class<T> clazz) {
+		final StringWriter sw = new StringWriter();
+		try {
+			IOUtils.copy(clazz.getResourceAsStream(filename), sw, StandardCharsets.UTF_8);
+			return sw.toString();
+		} catch (final IOException e) {
+			throw new RuntimeException("cannot load resource from classpath: " + filename);
+		}
+	}
+
+}

dhp-pace-core/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/pace/config/Config.java

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+
+package eu.dnetlib.pace.config;
+
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.Map;
+import java.util.regex.Pattern;
+
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.model.ClusteringDef;
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.model.FieldDef;
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.tree.support.TreeNodeDef;
+
+/**
+ * Interface for PACE configuration bean.
+ *
+ * @author claudio
+ */
+public interface Config {
+
+	/**
+	 * Field configuration definitions.
+	 *
+	 * @return the list of definitions
+	 */
+	public List<FieldDef> model();
+
+	/**
+	 * Decision Tree definition
+	 *
+	 * @return the map representing the decision tree
+	 */
+	public Map<String, TreeNodeDef> decisionTree();
+
+	/**
+	 * Field configuration definitions.
+	 *
+	 * @return the list of definitions
+	 */
+	public Map<String, FieldDef> modelMap();
+
+	/**
+	 * Clusterings.
+	 *
+	 * @return the list
+	 */
+	public List<ClusteringDef> clusterings();
+
+	/**
+	 * Blacklists.
+	 *
+	 * @return the map
+	 */
+	public Map<String, List<Pattern>> blacklists();
+
+	/**
+	 * Translation map.
+	 *
+	 * @return the map
+	 * */
+	public Map<String, String> translationMap();
+}

dhp-pace-core/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/pace/config/DedupConfig.java

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+
+package eu.dnetlib.pace.config;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.Serializable;
+import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;
+import java.util.HashMap;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.Map;
+import java.util.Map.Entry;
+import java.util.regex.Pattern;
+import java.util.stream.Collectors;
+
+import org.antlr.stringtemplate.StringTemplate;
+import org.apache.commons.io.IOUtils;
+import org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils;
+import org.apache.commons.logging.Log;
+import org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory;
+
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonIgnore;
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
+import com.google.common.collect.Maps;
+
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.model.ClusteringDef;
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.model.FieldDef;
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.tree.support.TreeNodeDef;
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.util.PaceException;
+
+public class DedupConfig implements Config, Serializable {
+
+	private static final Log log = LogFactory.getLog(DedupConfig.class);
+
+	private static String CONFIG_TEMPLATE = "dedupConfig.st";
+
+	private PaceConfig pace;
+
+	private WfConfig wf;
+
+	@JsonIgnore
+	private Map<String, List<Pattern>> blacklists;
+
+	private static Map<String, String> defaults = Maps.newHashMap();
+
+	static {
+		defaults.put("dedupRun", "001");
+		defaults.put("entityType", "result");
+		defaults.put("subEntityType", "resulttype");
+		defaults.put("subEntityValue", "publication");
+		defaults.put("orderField", "title");
+		defaults.put("queueMaxSize", "2000");
+		defaults.put("groupMaxSize", "10");
+		defaults.put("slidingWindowSize", "200");
+		defaults.put("rootBuilder", "result");
+		defaults.put("includeChildren", "true");
+		defaults.put("maxIterations", "20");
+		defaults.put("idPath", "$.id");
+	}
+
+	public DedupConfig() {
+	}
+
+	public static DedupConfig load(final String json) {
+
+		final DedupConfig config;
+		try {
+			config = new ObjectMapper().readValue(json, DedupConfig.class);
+			config.getPace().initModel();
+			config.getPace().initTranslationMap();
+
+			config.blacklists = config
+				.getPace()
+				.getBlacklists()
+				.entrySet()
+				.stream()
+				.collect(
+					Collectors
+						.toMap(
+							e -> e.getKey(),
+							e -> e
+								.getValue()
+								.stream()
+								.filter(s -> !StringUtils.isBlank(s))
+								.map(Pattern::compile)
+								.collect(Collectors.toList())));
+
+			return config;
+		} catch (IOException e) {
+			throw new PaceException("Error in parsing configuration json", e);
+		}
+
+	}
+
+	public static DedupConfig loadDefault() throws IOException {
+		return loadDefault(new HashMap<String, String>());
+	}
+
+	public static DedupConfig loadDefault(final Map<String, String> params) throws IOException {
+
+		final StringTemplate template = new StringTemplate(new DedupConfig().readFromClasspath(CONFIG_TEMPLATE));
+
+		for (final Entry<String, String> e : defaults.entrySet()) {
+			template.setAttribute(e.getKey(), e.getValue());
+		}
+		for (final Entry<String, String> e : params.entrySet()) {
+			if (template.getAttribute(e.getKey()) != null) {
+				template.getAttributes().computeIfPresent(e.getKey(), (o, o2) -> e.getValue());
+			} else {
+				template.setAttribute(e.getKey(), e.getValue());
+			}
+		}
+
+		final String json = template.toString();
+		return load(json);
+	}
+
+	private String readFromClasspath(final String resource) throws IOException {
+		return IOUtils.toString(getClass().getResource(resource), StandardCharsets.UTF_8);
+	}
+
+	public PaceConfig getPace() {
+		return pace;
+	}
+
+	public void setPace(final PaceConfig pace) {
+		this.pace = pace;
+	}
+
+	public WfConfig getWf() {
+		return wf;
+	}
+
+	public void setWf(final WfConfig wf) {
+		this.wf = wf;
+	}
+
+	@Override
+	public String toString() {
+		try {
+			return new ObjectMapper().writeValueAsString(this);
+		} catch (IOException e) {
+			throw new PaceException("unable to serialise configuration", e);
+		}
+	}
+
+	@Override
+	public Map<String, TreeNodeDef> decisionTree() {
+		return getPace().getDecisionTree();
+	}
+
+	@Override
+	public List<FieldDef> model() {
+		return getPace().getModel();
+	}
+
+	@Override
+	public Map<String, FieldDef> modelMap() {
+		return getPace().getModelMap();
+	}
+
+	@Override
+	public List<ClusteringDef> clusterings() {
+		return getPace().getClustering();
+	}
+
+	@Override
+	public Map<String, List<Pattern>> blacklists() {
+		return blacklists;
+	}
+
+	@Override
+	public Map<String, String> translationMap() {
+		return getPace().translationMap();
+	}
+
+}

dhp-pace-core/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/pace/config/PaceConfig.java

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+
+package eu.dnetlib.pace.config;
+
+import java.io.Serializable;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.Map;
+
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonIgnore;
+import com.google.common.collect.Maps;
+import com.ibm.icu.text.Transliterator;
+
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.common.AbstractPaceFunctions;
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.model.ClusteringDef;
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.model.FieldDef;
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.tree.support.TreeNodeDef;
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.util.PaceResolver;
+
+public class PaceConfig extends AbstractPaceFunctions implements Serializable {
+
+	private List<FieldDef> model;
+
+	private List<ClusteringDef> clustering;
+	private Map<String, TreeNodeDef> decisionTree;
+
+	private Map<String, List<String>> blacklists;
+	private Map<String, List<String>> synonyms;
+
+	@JsonIgnore
+	private Map<String, String> translationMap;
+
+	@JsonIgnore
+	private Map<String, FieldDef> modelMap;
+
+	@JsonIgnore
+	public static PaceResolver resolver = new PaceResolver();
+
+	public PaceConfig() {
+	}
+
+	public void initModel() {
+		modelMap = Maps.newHashMap();
+		for (FieldDef fd : getModel()) {
+			modelMap.put(fd.getName(), fd);
+		}
+	}
+
+	public void initTranslationMap() {
+		translationMap = Maps.newHashMap();
+
+		Transliterator transliterator = Transliterator.getInstance("Any-Eng");
+		for (String key : synonyms.keySet()) {
+			for (String term : synonyms.get(key)) {
+				translationMap
+					.put(
+						fixAliases(transliterator.transliterate(term.toLowerCase())),
+						key);
+			}
+		}
+	}
+
+	public Map<String, String> translationMap() {
+		return translationMap;
+	}
+
+	public List<FieldDef> getModel() {
+		return model;
+	}
+
+	public void setModel(final List<FieldDef> model) {
+		this.model = model;
+	}
+
+	public List<ClusteringDef> getClustering() {
+		return clustering;
+	}
+
+	public void setClustering(final List<ClusteringDef> clustering) {
+		this.clustering = clustering;
+	}
+
+	public Map<String, TreeNodeDef> getDecisionTree() {
+		return decisionTree;
+	}
+
+	public void setDecisionTree(Map<String, TreeNodeDef> decisionTree) {
+		this.decisionTree = decisionTree;
+	}
+
+	public Map<String, List<String>> getBlacklists() {
+		return blacklists;
+	}
+
+	public void setBlacklists(final Map<String, List<String>> blacklists) {
+		this.blacklists = blacklists;
+	}
+
+	public Map<String, List<String>> getSynonyms() {
+		return synonyms;
+	}
+
+	public void setSynonyms(Map<String, List<String>> synonyms) {
+		this.synonyms = synonyms;
+	}
+
+	public Map<String, FieldDef> getModelMap() {
+		return modelMap;
+	}
+
+	public void setModelMap(final Map<String, FieldDef> modelMap) {
+		this.modelMap = modelMap;
+	}
+
+}

dhp-pace-core/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/pace/config/Type.java

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+
+package eu.dnetlib.pace.config;
+
+public enum Type {
+	String, Int, List, JSON, URL, StringConcat, DoubleArray
+}

dhp-pace-core/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/pace/config/WfConfig.java

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+
+package eu.dnetlib.pace.config;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.Serializable;
+import java.util.HashSet;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.Set;
+
+import org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils;
+
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
+import com.google.common.collect.Lists;
+import com.google.common.collect.Sets;
+
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.util.PaceException;
+
+public class WfConfig implements Serializable {
+
+	/**
+	 * Entity type.
+	 */
+	private String entityType = "";
+
+	/**
+	 * Sub-Entity type refers to one of fields declared in the model. See eu.dnetlib.pace.config.PaceConfig.modelMap
+	 */
+	private String subEntityType = "";
+
+	/**
+	 * Sub-Entity value declares a value for subTypes to be considered.
+	 */
+	private String subEntityValue = "";
+
+	/**
+	 * Field name used to sort the values in the reducer phase.
+	 */
+	private String orderField = "";
+
+	/**
+	 * Column Families involved in the relations redirection.
+	 */
+	private List<String> rootBuilder = Lists.newArrayList();
+
+	/**
+	 * Set of datasource namespace prefixes that won't be deduplicated.
+	 */
+	private Set<String> skipList = Sets.newHashSet();
+
+	/**
+	 * Subprefix used to build the root id, allows multiple dedup runs.
+	 */
+	private String dedupRun = "";
+
+	/**
+	 * Similarity threshold.
+	 */
+	private double threshold = 0;
+
+	/** The queue max size. */
+	private int queueMaxSize = 2000;
+
+	/** The group max size. */
+	private int groupMaxSize;
+
+	/** The sliding window size. */
+	private int slidingWindowSize;
+
+	/** The configuration id. */
+	private String configurationId;
+
+	/** The include children. */
+	private boolean includeChildren;
+
+	/** Default maximum number of allowed children. */
+	private final static int MAX_CHILDREN = 10;
+
+	/** Maximum number of allowed children. */
+	private int maxChildren = MAX_CHILDREN;
+
+	/** Default maximum number of iterations. */
+	private final static int MAX_ITERATIONS = 20;
+
+	/** Maximum number of iterations */
+	private int maxIterations = MAX_ITERATIONS;
+
+	/** The Jquery path to retrieve the identifier */
+	private String idPath = "$.id";
+
+	public WfConfig() {
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * Instantiates a new dedup config.
+	 *
+	 * @param entityType
+	 *            the entity type
+	 * @param orderField
+	 *            the order field
+	 * @param rootBuilder
+	 *            the root builder families
+	 * @param dedupRun
+	 *            the dedup run
+	 * @param skipList
+	 *            the skip list
+	 * @param queueMaxSize
+	 *            the queue max size
+	 * @param groupMaxSize
+	 *            the group max size
+	 * @param slidingWindowSize
+	 *            the sliding window size
+	 * @param includeChildren
+	 *            allows the children to be included in the representative records or not.
+	 * @param maxIterations
+	 * 			  the maximum number of iterations
+	 * @param idPath
+	 * 			  the path for the id of the entity
+	 */
+	public WfConfig(final String entityType, final String orderField, final List<String> rootBuilder,
+		final String dedupRun,
+		final Set<String> skipList, final int queueMaxSize, final int groupMaxSize, final int slidingWindowSize,
+		final boolean includeChildren, final int maxIterations, final String idPath) {
+		super();
+		this.entityType = entityType;
+		this.orderField = orderField;
+		this.rootBuilder = rootBuilder;
+		this.dedupRun = cleanupStringNumber(dedupRun);
+		this.skipList = skipList;
+		this.queueMaxSize = queueMaxSize;
+		this.groupMaxSize = groupMaxSize;
+		this.slidingWindowSize = slidingWindowSize;
+		this.includeChildren = includeChildren;
+		this.maxIterations = maxIterations;
+		this.idPath = idPath;
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * Cleanup string number.
+	 *
+	 * @param s
+	 *            the s
+	 * @return the string
+	 */
+	private String cleanupStringNumber(final String s) {
+		return s.contains("'") ? s.replaceAll("'", "") : s;
+	}
+
+	public boolean hasSubType() {
+		return StringUtils.isNotBlank(getSubEntityType()) && StringUtils.isNotBlank(getSubEntityValue());
+	}
+
+	public String getEntityType() {
+		return entityType;
+	}
+
+	public void setEntityType(final String entityType) {
+		this.entityType = entityType;
+	}
+
+	public String getSubEntityType() {
+		return subEntityType;
+	}
+
+	public void setSubEntityType(final String subEntityType) {
+		this.subEntityType = subEntityType;
+	}
+
+	public String getSubEntityValue() {
+		return subEntityValue;
+	}
+
+	public void setSubEntityValue(final String subEntityValue) {
+		this.subEntityValue = subEntityValue;
+	}
+
+	public String getOrderField() {
+		return orderField;
+	}
+
+	public void setOrderField(final String orderField) {
+		this.orderField = orderField;
+	}
+
+	public List<String> getRootBuilder() {
+		return rootBuilder;
+	}
+
+	public void setRootBuilder(final List<String> rootBuilder) {
+		this.rootBuilder = rootBuilder;
+	}
+
+	public Set<String> getSkipList() {
+		return skipList != null ? skipList : new HashSet<String>();
+	}
+
+	public void setSkipList(final Set<String> skipList) {
+		this.skipList = skipList;
+	}
+
+	public String getDedupRun() {
+		return dedupRun;
+	}
+
+	public void setDedupRun(final String dedupRun) {
+		this.dedupRun = dedupRun;
+	}
+
+	public double getThreshold() {
+		return threshold;
+	}
+
+	public void setThreshold(final double threshold) {
+		this.threshold = threshold;
+	}
+
+	public int getQueueMaxSize() {
+		return queueMaxSize;
+	}
+
+	public void setQueueMaxSize(final int queueMaxSize) {
+		this.queueMaxSize = queueMaxSize;
+	}
+
+	public int getGroupMaxSize() {
+		return groupMaxSize;
+	}
+
+	public void setGroupMaxSize(final int groupMaxSize) {
+		this.groupMaxSize = groupMaxSize;
+	}
+
+	public int getSlidingWindowSize() {
+		return slidingWindowSize;
+	}
+
+	public void setSlidingWindowSize(final int slidingWindowSize) {
+		this.slidingWindowSize = slidingWindowSize;
+	}
+
+	public String getConfigurationId() {
+		return configurationId;
+	}
+
+	public void setConfigurationId(final String configurationId) {
+		this.configurationId = configurationId;
+	}
+
+	public boolean isIncludeChildren() {
+		return includeChildren;
+	}
+
+	public void setIncludeChildren(final boolean includeChildren) {
+		this.includeChildren = includeChildren;
+	}
+
+	public int getMaxChildren() {
+		return maxChildren;
+	}
+
+	public void setMaxChildren(final int maxChildren) {
+		this.maxChildren = maxChildren;
+	}
+
+	public int getMaxIterations() {
+		return maxIterations;
+	}
+
+	public void setMaxIterations(int maxIterations) {
+		this.maxIterations = maxIterations;
+	}
+
+	public String getIdPath() {
+		return idPath;
+	}
+
+	public void setIdPath(String idPath) {
+		this.idPath = idPath;
+
+	}
+
+	/*
+	 * (non-Javadoc)
+	 * @see java.lang.Object#toString()
+	 */
+	@Override
+	public String toString() {
+		try {
+			return new ObjectMapper().writeValueAsString(this);
+		} catch (IOException e) {
+			throw new PaceException("unable to serialise " + this.getClass().getName(), e);
+		}
+	}
+
+}

dhp-pace-core/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/pace/model/AbstractField.java

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+
+package eu.dnetlib.pace.model;
+
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.config.Type;
+
+/**
+ * The Class AbstractField.
+ */
+public abstract class AbstractField implements Field {
+
+	/** The type. */
+	protected Type type = Type.String;
+
+	/** The name. */
+	protected String name;
+
+	/**
+	 * Instantiates a new abstract field.
+	 */
+	protected AbstractField() {
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * Instantiates a new abstract field.
+	 *
+	 * @param type
+	 *            the type
+	 * @param name
+	 *            the name
+	 */
+	protected AbstractField(final Type type, final String name) {
+		this.type = type;
+		this.name = name;
+	}
+
+	/*
+	 * (non-Javadoc)
+	 * @see eu.dnetlib.pace.model.Field#getName()
+	 */
+	@Override
+	public String getName() {
+		return name;
+	}
+
+	/*
+	 * (non-Javadoc)
+	 * @see eu.dnetlib.pace.model.Field#getType()
+	 */
+	@Override
+	public Type getType() {
+		return type;
+	}
+
+	/*
+	 * (non-Javadoc)
+	 * @see eu.dnetlib.pace.model.Field#setName(java.lang.String)
+	 */
+	@Override
+	public void setName(final String name) {
+		this.name = name;
+	}
+
+	/*
+	 * (non-Javadoc)
+	 * @see eu.dnetlib.pace.model.Field#setType(eu.dnetlib.pace.config.Type)
+	 */
+	@Override
+	public void setType(final Type type) {
+		this.type = type;
+	}
+
+}

dhp-pace-core/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/pace/model/ClusteringDef.java

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+
+package eu.dnetlib.pace.model;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.Serializable;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.Map;
+
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
+
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.clustering.ClusteringFunction;
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.config.PaceConfig;
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.util.PaceException;
+
+public class ClusteringDef implements Serializable {
+
+	private String name;
+
+	private List<String> fields;
+
+	private Map<String, Integer> params;
+
+	public ClusteringDef() {
+	}
+
+	public String getName() {
+		return name;
+	}
+
+	public void setName(final String name) {
+		this.name = name;
+	}
+
+	public ClusteringFunction clusteringFunction() {
+		return PaceConfig.resolver.getClusteringFunction(getName(), params);
+	}
+
+	public List<String> getFields() {
+		return fields;
+	}
+
+	public void setFields(final List<String> fields) {
+		this.fields = fields;
+	}
+
+	public Map<String, Integer> getParams() {
+		return params;
+	}
+
+	public void setParams(final Map<String, Integer> params) {
+		this.params = params;
+	}
+
+	@Override
+	public String toString() {
+		try {
+			return new ObjectMapper().writeValueAsString(this);
+		} catch (IOException e) {
+			throw new PaceException("unable to serialise " + this.getClass().getName(), e);
+		}
+	}
+
+}

dhp-pace-core/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/pace/model/Document.java

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+
+package eu.dnetlib.pace.model;
+
+import java.util.Set;
+
+/**
+ * The Interface Document. Models the common operations available on a Pace Document.
+ */
+public interface Document {
+
+	/**
+	 * Gets the identifier.
+	 *
+	 * @return the identifier
+	 */
+	String getIdentifier();
+
+	/**
+	 * Fields.
+	 *
+	 * @return the iterable
+	 */
+	Iterable<Field> fields();
+
+	/**
+	 * Values.
+	 *
+	 * @param name
+	 *            the name
+	 * @return the field list
+	 */
+	Field values(String name);
+
+	/**
+	 * Field names.
+	 *
+	 * @return the sets the
+	 */
+	Set<String> fieldNames();
+}

dhp-pace-core/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/pace/model/Field.java

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+
+package eu.dnetlib.pace.model;
+
+import java.io.Serializable;
+
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.config.Type;
+
+/**
+ * The Interface Field.
+ */
+public interface Field extends Iterable<Field>, Serializable {
+
+	/**
+	 * Gets the name.
+	 * 
+	 * @return the name
+	 */
+	public String getName();
+
+	/**
+	 * Sets the name.
+	 * 
+	 * @param name
+	 *            the new name
+	 */
+	public void setName(String name);
+
+	/**
+	 * Gets the type.
+	 * 
+	 * @return the type
+	 */
+	public Type getType();
+
+	/**
+	 * Sets the type.
+	 * 
+	 * @param type
+	 *            the new type
+	 */
+	public void setType(Type type);
+
+	/**
+	 * Checks if is empty.
+	 * 
+	 * @return true, if is empty
+	 */
+	public boolean isEmpty();
+
+	/**
+	 * String value.
+	 * 
+	 * @return the string
+	 */
+	public String stringValue();
+
+}

dhp-pace-core/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/pace/model/FieldDef.java

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+
+package eu.dnetlib.pace.model;
+
+import java.io.Serializable;
+import java.util.List;
+
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.core.JsonProcessingException;
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
+import com.google.common.base.Splitter;
+import com.google.common.collect.Lists;
+
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.config.Type;
+
+/**
+ * The schema is composed by field definitions (FieldDef). Each field has a type, a name, and an associated compare algorithm.
+ */
+public class FieldDef implements Serializable {
+
+	public final static String PATH_SEPARATOR = "/";
+
+	private String name;
+
+	private String path;
+
+	private Type type;
+
+	private boolean overrideMatch;
+
+	/**
+	 * Sets maximum size for the repeatable fields in the model. -1 for unbounded size.
+	 */
+	private int size = -1;
+
+	/**
+	 * Sets maximum length for field values in the model. -1 for unbounded length.
+	 */
+	private int length = -1;
+
+	public FieldDef() {
+	}
+
+	// def apply(s: String): Field[A]
+	public Field apply(final Type type, final String s) {
+		switch (type) {
+			case Int:
+				return new FieldValueImpl(type, name, Integer.parseInt(s));
+			case String:
+				return new FieldValueImpl(type, name, s);
+			case List:
+				return new FieldListImpl(name, type);
+			default:
+				throw new IllegalArgumentException("Casting not implemented for type " + type);
+		}
+	}
+
+	public String getName() {
+		return name;
+	}
+
+	public String getPath() {
+		return path;
+	}
+
+	public List<String> getPathList() {
+		return Lists.newArrayList(Splitter.on(PATH_SEPARATOR).split(getPath()));
+	}
+
+	public Type getType() {
+		return type;
+	}
+
+	public void setType(final Type type) {
+		this.type = type;
+	}
+
+	public boolean isOverrideMatch() {
+		return overrideMatch;
+	}
+
+	public void setOverrideMatch(final boolean overrideMatch) {
+		this.overrideMatch = overrideMatch;
+	}
+
+	public int getSize() {
+		return size;
+	}
+
+	public void setSize(int size) {
+		this.size = size;
+	}
+
+	public int getLength() {
+		return length;
+	}
+
+	public void setLength(int length) {
+		this.length = length;
+	}
+
+	public void setName(String name) {
+		this.name = name;
+	}
+
+	public void setPath(String path) {
+		this.path = path;
+	}
+
+	@Override
+	public String toString() {
+		try {
+			return new ObjectMapper().writeValueAsString(this);
+		} catch (JsonProcessingException e) {
+			return null;
+		}
+	}
+
+}

dhp-pace-core/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/pace/model/FieldList.java

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+
+package eu.dnetlib.pace.model;
+
+import java.util.List;
+
+/**
+ * The Interface FieldList.
+ */
+public interface FieldList extends List<Field>, Field {
+
+	/**
+	 * String list.
+	 * 
+	 * @return the list
+	 */
+	public List<String> stringList();
+
+	/**
+	 * Double[] Array
+	 *
+	 * @return the double[] array
+	 */
+	public double[] doubleArray();
+
+}

dhp-pace-core/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/pace/model/FieldListImpl.java

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+
+package eu.dnetlib.pace.model;
+
+import java.util.Collection;
+import java.util.Iterator;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.ListIterator;
+
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.core.JsonProcessingException;
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
+import com.google.common.base.Function;
+import com.google.common.base.Joiner;
+import com.google.common.collect.Iterables;
+import com.google.common.collect.Lists;
+
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.config.Type;
+
+/**
+ * The Class FieldListImpl.
+ */
+public class FieldListImpl extends AbstractField implements FieldList {
+
+	/** The fields. */
+	private List<Field> fields;
+
+	/**
+	 * Instantiates a new field list impl.
+	 */
+	public FieldListImpl() {
+		fields = Lists.newArrayList();
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * Instantiates a new field list impl.
+	 *
+	 * @param name
+	 *            the name
+	 */
+	public FieldListImpl(final String name, final Type type) {
+		super(type, name);
+		fields = Lists.newArrayList();
+	}
+
+	/*
+	 * (non-Javadoc)
+	 * @see java.util.List#add(java.lang.Object)
+	 */
+	@Override
+	public boolean add(final Field f) {
+		return fields.add(f);
+	}
+
+	/*
+	 * (non-Javadoc)
+	 * @see java.util.List#add(int, java.lang.Object)
+	 */
+	@Override
+	public void add(final int i, final Field f) {
+		fields.add(i, f);
+	}
+
+	/*
+	 * (non-Javadoc)
+	 * @see java.util.List#addAll(java.util.Collection)
+	 */
+	@Override
+	public boolean addAll(final Collection<? extends Field> f) {
+		return fields.addAll(f);
+	}
+
+	/*
+	 * (non-Javadoc)
+	 * @see java.util.List#addAll(int, java.util.Collection)
+	 */
+	@Override
+	public boolean addAll(final int i, final Collection<? extends Field> f) {
+		return fields.addAll(i, f);
+	}
+
+	/*
+	 * (non-Javadoc)
+	 * @see java.util.List#clear()
+	 */
+	@Override
+	public void clear() {
+		fields.clear();
+	}
+
+	/*
+	 * (non-Javadoc)
+	 * @see java.util.List#contains(java.lang.Object)
+	 */
+	@Override
+	public boolean contains(final Object o) {
+		return fields.contains(o);
+	}
+
+	/*
+	 * (non-Javadoc)
+	 * @see java.util.List#containsAll(java.util.Collection)
+	 */
+	@Override
+	public boolean containsAll(final Collection<?> f) {
+		return fields.containsAll(f);
+	}
+
+	/*
+	 * (non-Javadoc)
+	 * @see java.util.List#get(int)
+	 */
+	@Override
+	public Field get(final int i) {
+		return fields.get(i);
+	}
+
+	/*
+	 * (non-Javadoc)
+	 * @see java.util.List#indexOf(java.lang.Object)
+	 */
+	@Override
+	public int indexOf(final Object o) {
+		return fields.indexOf(o);
+	}
+
+	/*
+	 * (non-Javadoc)
+	 * @see eu.dnetlib.pace.model.Field#isEmpty()
+	 */
+	@Override
+	public boolean isEmpty() {
+		return Iterables.all(fields, f -> f.isEmpty());
+	}
+
+	/*
+	 * (non-Javadoc)
+	 * @see java.lang.Iterable#iterator()
+	 */
+	@Override
+	public Iterator<Field> iterator() {
+		return fields.iterator();
+	}
+
+	/*
+	 * (non-Javadoc)
+	 * @see java.util.List#lastIndexOf(java.lang.Object)
+	 */
+	@Override
+	public int lastIndexOf(final Object o) {
+		return fields.lastIndexOf(o);
+	}
+
+	/*
+	 * (non-Javadoc)
+	 * @see java.util.List#listIterator()
+	 */
+	@Override
+	public ListIterator<Field> listIterator() {
+		return fields.listIterator();
+	}
+
+	/*
+	 * (non-Javadoc)
+	 * @see java.util.List#listIterator(int)
+	 */
+	@Override
+	public ListIterator<Field> listIterator(final int i) {
+		return fields.listIterator(i);
+	}
+
+	/*
+	 * (non-Javadoc)
+	 * @see java.util.List#remove(java.lang.Object)
+	 */
+	@Override
+	public boolean remove(final Object o) {
+		return fields.remove(o);
+	}
+
+	/*
+	 * (non-Javadoc)
+	 * @see java.util.List#remove(int)
+	 */
+	@Override
+	public Field remove(final int i) {
+		return fields.remove(i);
+	}
+
+	/*
+	 * (non-Javadoc)
+	 * @see java.util.List#removeAll(java.util.Collection)
+	 */
+	@Override
+	public boolean removeAll(final Collection<?> f) {
+		return fields.removeAll(f);
+	}
+
+	/*
+	 * (non-Javadoc)
+	 * @see java.util.List#retainAll(java.util.Collection)
+	 */
+	@Override
+	public boolean retainAll(final Collection<?> f) {
+		return fields.retainAll(f);
+	}
+
+	/*
+	 * (non-Javadoc)
+	 * @see java.util.List#set(int, java.lang.Object)
+	 */
+	@Override
+	public Field set(final int i, final Field f) {
+		return fields.set(i, f);
+	}
+
+	/*
+	 * (non-Javadoc)
+	 * @see java.util.List#size()
+	 */
+	@Override
+	public int size() {
+		return fields.size();
+	}
+
+	/*
+	 * (non-Javadoc)
+	 * @see java.util.List#subList(int, int)
+	 */
+	@Override
+	public List<Field> subList(final int from, final int to) {
+		return fields.subList(from, to);
+	}
+
+	/*
+	 * (non-Javadoc)
+	 * @see java.util.List#toArray()
+	 */
+	@Override
+	public Object[] toArray() {
+		return fields.toArray();
+	}
+
+	/*
+	 * (non-Javadoc)
+	 * @see java.util.List#toArray(java.lang.Object[])
+	 */
+	@Override
+	public <T> T[] toArray(final T[] t) {
+		return fields.toArray(t);
+	}
+
+	/*
+	 * (non-Javadoc)
+	 * @see eu.dnetlib.pace.model.Field#stringValue()
+	 */
+	@Override
+	public String stringValue() {
+		switch (getType()) {
+
+			case List:
+			case Int:
+			case String:
+				return Joiner.on(" ").join(stringList());
+			case JSON:
+				String json;
+				try {
+					json = new ObjectMapper().writeValueAsString(this);
+				} catch (JsonProcessingException e) {
+					json = null;
+				}
+				return json;
+			default:
+				throw new IllegalArgumentException("Unknown type: " + getType().toString());
+		}
+	}
+
+	/*
+	 * (non-Javadoc)
+	 * @see eu.dnetlib.pace.model.FieldList#stringList()
+	 */
+	@Override
+	public List<String> stringList() {
+		return Lists.newArrayList(Iterables.transform(fields, getValuesTransformer()));
+	}
+
+	private Function<Field, String> getValuesTransformer() {
+		return new Function<Field, String>() {
+
+			@Override
+			public String apply(final Field f) {
+				return f.stringValue();
+			}
+		};
+	}
+
+	@Override
+	public double[] doubleArray() {
+		return Lists.newArrayList(Iterables.transform(fields, getDouble())).stream().mapToDouble(d -> d).toArray();
+	}
+
+	private Function<Field, Double> getDouble() {
+
+		return new Function<Field, Double>() {
+			@Override
+			public Double apply(final Field f) {
+				return Double.parseDouble(f.stringValue());
+			}
+		};
+	}
+
+	@Override
+	public String toString() {
+		return stringList().toString();
+	}
+
+}

dhp-pace-core/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/pace/model/FieldValue.java

@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+
+package eu.dnetlib.pace.model;
+
+/**
+ * The Interface FieldValue.
+ */
+public interface FieldValue extends Field {
+
+	/**
+	 * Gets the value.
+	 * 
+	 * @return the value
+	 */
+	public Object getValue();
+
+	/**
+	 * Sets the value.
+	 * 
+	 * @param value
+	 *            the new value
+	 */
+	public void setValue(final Object value);
+
+	public double[] doubleArrayValue();
+
+}

dhp-pace-core/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/pace/model/FieldValueImpl.java

@@ -0,0 +1,135 @@
+
+package eu.dnetlib.pace.model;
+
+import java.net.MalformedURLException;
+import java.net.URL;
+import java.util.Collections;
+import java.util.Iterator;
+import java.util.List;
+
+import org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils;
+
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.config.Type;
+
+/**
+ * The Class FieldValueImpl.
+ */
+public class FieldValueImpl extends AbstractField implements FieldValue {
+
+	/** The value. */
+	private Object value = null;
+
+	/**
+	 * Instantiates a new field value impl.
+	 */
+	public FieldValueImpl() {
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * Instantiates a new field value impl.
+	 * 
+	 * @param type
+	 *            the type
+	 * @param name
+	 *            the name
+	 * @param value
+	 *            the value
+	 */
+	public FieldValueImpl(final Type type, final String name, final Object value) {
+		super(type, name);
+		this.value = value;
+	}
+
+	/*
+	 * (non-Javadoc)
+	 * @see eu.dnetlib.pace.model.Field#isEmpty()
+	 */
+	@Override
+	public boolean isEmpty() {
+		if (value == null)
+			return false;
+
+		switch (type) {
+			case String:
+			case JSON:
+				return value.toString().isEmpty();
+			case List:
+				try {
+					List<?> list = (List<?>) value;
+					return list.isEmpty() || ((FieldValueImpl) list.get(0)).isEmpty();
+				} catch (Exception e) {
+					throw new RuntimeException(value.toString());
+				}
+			case URL:
+				String str = value.toString();
+				return StringUtils.isBlank(str) || !isValidURL(str);
+			case DoubleArray:
+				return doubleArrayValue().length == 0;
+			default:
+				return true;
+		}
+	}
+
+	private boolean isValidURL(final String s) {
+		try {
+			new URL(s);
+			return true;
+		} catch (MalformedURLException e) {
+			return false;
+		}
+	}
+
+	/*
+	 * (non-Javadoc)
+	 * @see eu.dnetlib.pace.model.FieldValue#getValue()
+	 */
+	@Override
+	public Object getValue() {
+		return value;
+	}
+
+	/*
+	 * (non-Javadoc)
+	 * @see eu.dnetlib.pace.model.FieldValue#setValue(java.lang.Object)
+	 */
+	@Override
+	public void setValue(final Object value) {
+		this.value = value;
+	}
+
+	/*
+	 * (non-Javadoc)
+	 * @see eu.dnetlib.pace.model.Field#stringValue()
+	 */
+	@Override
+	// @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
+	public String stringValue() {
+		return String.valueOf(getValue());
+		// switch (getType()) {
+		//
+		// case Int:
+		// return String.valueOf(getValue());
+		// case List:
+		// return Joiner.on(" ").join((List<String>) getValue());
+		// case String:
+		// return (String) getValue();
+		// default:
+		// throw new IllegalArgumentException("Unknown type: " + getType().toString());
+		// }
+	}
+
+	public double[] doubleArrayValue() {
+		return (double[]) getValue();
+	}
+
+	/*
+	 * (non-Javadoc)
+	 * @see java.lang.Iterable#iterator()
+	 */
+	@Override
+	@SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
+	public Iterator<Field> iterator() {
+		return Collections.singleton((Field) this).iterator();
+	}
+
+}

dhp-pace-core/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/pace/model/MapDocument.java

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+
+package eu.dnetlib.pace.model;
+
+import java.io.Serializable;
+import java.util.Map;
+import java.util.Set;
+
+import com.google.common.collect.Iterables;
+import com.google.common.collect.Lists;
+import com.google.common.collect.Maps;
+
+/**
+ * The Class MapDocument.
+ */
+public class MapDocument implements Document, Serializable {
+
+	/** The identifier. */
+	private String identifier;
+
+	/** The field map. */
+	private Map<String, Field> fieldMap;
+
+	/**
+	 * Instantiates a new map document.
+	 */
+	public MapDocument() {
+		identifier = null;
+		fieldMap = Maps.newHashMap();
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * Instantiates a new map document.
+	 *
+	 * @param identifier
+	 *            the identifier
+	 * @param fieldMap
+	 *            the field map
+	 */
+	public MapDocument(final String identifier, final Map<String, Field> fieldMap) {
+		this.setIdentifier(identifier);
+		this.fieldMap = fieldMap;
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * Instantiates a new map document.
+	 *
+	 * @param identifier
+	 *            the identifier
+	 * @param data
+	 *            the data
+	 */
+	public MapDocument(final String identifier, final byte[] data) {
+		final MapDocument doc = MapDocumentSerializer.decode(data);
+
+		this.fieldMap = doc.fieldMap;
+		this.identifier = doc.identifier;
+	}
+
+	/*
+	 * (non-Javadoc)
+	 * @see eu.dnetlib.pace.model.document.Document#fields()
+	 */
+	@Override
+	public Iterable<Field> fields() {
+		return Lists.newArrayList(Iterables.concat(fieldMap.values()));
+	}
+
+	/*
+	 * (non-Javadoc)
+	 * @see eu.dnetlib.pace.model.document.Document#values(java.lang.String)
+	 */
+	@Override
+	public Field values(final String name) {
+		return fieldMap.get(name);
+	}
+
+	/*
+	 * (non-Javadoc)
+	 * @see eu.dnetlib.pace.model.document.Document#fieldNames()
+	 */
+	@Override
+	public Set<String> fieldNames() {
+		return fieldMap.keySet();
+	}
+
+	/*
+	 * (non-Javadoc)
+	 * @see java.lang.Object#toString()
+	 */
+	@Override
+	public String toString() {
+		return MapDocumentSerializer.toString(this);
+		// return String.format("Document(%s)", fieldMap.toString());
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * To byte array.
+	 *
+	 * @return the byte[]
+	 */
+	public byte[] toByteArray() {
+		return MapDocumentSerializer.toByteArray(this);
+	}
+
+	/*
+	 * (non-Javadoc)
+	 * @see eu.dnetlib.pace.model.document.Document#getIdentifier()
+	 */
+	@Override
+	public String getIdentifier() {
+		return identifier;
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * Sets the identifier.
+	 *
+	 * @param identifier
+	 *            the new identifier
+	 */
+	public void setIdentifier(final String identifier) {
+		this.identifier = identifier;
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * Gets the field map.
+	 *
+	 * @return the field map
+	 */
+	public Map<String, Field> getFieldMap() {
+		return fieldMap;
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * Sets the field map.
+	 *
+	 * @param fieldMap
+	 *            the field map
+	 */
+	public void setFieldMap(final Map<String, Field> fieldMap) {
+		this.fieldMap = fieldMap;
+	}
+
+}

dhp-pace-core/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/pace/model/MapDocumentComparator.java

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+
+package eu.dnetlib.pace.model;
+
+import java.util.Comparator;
+
+import com.google.common.collect.Iterables;
+
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.clustering.NGramUtils;
+
+/**
+ * The Class MapDocumentComparator.
+ */
+public class MapDocumentComparator implements Comparator<Document> {
+
+	/** The comparator field. */
+	private String comparatorField;
+
+	private final FieldList emptyField = new FieldListImpl();
+
+	/**
+	 * Instantiates a new map document comparator.
+	 *
+	 * @param comparatorField
+	 *            the comparator field
+	 */
+	public MapDocumentComparator(final String comparatorField) {
+		this.comparatorField = comparatorField;
+	}
+
+	/*
+	 * (non-Javadoc)
+	 * @see java.util.Comparator#compare(java.lang.Object, java.lang.Object)
+	 */
+	@Override
+	public int compare(final Document d1, final Document d2) {
+
+		if (d1.values(comparatorField).isEmpty() || d2.values(comparatorField).isEmpty())
+			return 0;
+
+		final String o1 = Iterables.getFirst(d1.values(comparatorField), emptyField).stringValue();
+		final String o2 = Iterables.getFirst(d2.values(comparatorField), emptyField).stringValue();
+
+		if ((o1 == null) || (o2 == null))
+			return 0;
+
+		final String to1 = NGramUtils.cleanupForOrdering(o1);
+		final String to2 = NGramUtils.cleanupForOrdering(o2);
+
+		return to1.compareTo(to2);
+	}
+
+}

dhp-pace-core/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/pace/model/MapDocumentSerializer.java

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+
+package eu.dnetlib.pace.model;
+
+import java.lang.reflect.Type;
+
+import com.google.gson.GsonBuilder;
+import com.google.gson.InstanceCreator;
+import com.google.gson.JsonDeserializationContext;
+import com.google.gson.JsonDeserializer;
+import com.google.gson.JsonElement;
+import com.google.gson.JsonObject;
+import com.google.gson.JsonParseException;
+
+/**
+ * The Class MapDocumentSerializer.
+ */
+public class MapDocumentSerializer implements InstanceCreator<MapDocument> {
+
+	@Override
+	public MapDocument createInstance(final Type type) {
+		return new MapDocument();
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * Decode.
+	 *
+	 * @param s
+	 *            the String
+	 * @return the map document
+	 */
+	public static MapDocument decode(final String s) {
+		final GsonBuilder gson = new GsonBuilder();
+
+		gson.registerTypeAdapter(Field.class, new JsonDeserializer<Field>() {
+
+			@Override
+			public Field deserialize(final JsonElement json, final Type typeOfT,
+				final JsonDeserializationContext context) throws JsonParseException {
+				final FieldListImpl fl = new FieldListImpl();
+				if (json.isJsonObject()) {
+
+					fl.add(handleJsonObject(json.getAsJsonObject()));
+
+				} else if (json.isJsonArray()) {
+
+					for (final JsonElement e : json.getAsJsonArray()) {
+						if (e.isJsonObject()) {
+							fl.add(handleJsonObject(e.getAsJsonObject()));
+						}
+					}
+				}
+				return fl;
+			}
+
+			private Field handleJsonObject(final JsonObject o) {
+				final FieldListImpl fl = new FieldListImpl();
+				final String name = o.get("name").getAsString();
+				final String type = o.get("type").getAsString();
+				final String value = o.get("value").getAsString();
+				fl.add(new FieldValueImpl(eu.dnetlib.pace.config.Type.valueOf(type), name, value));
+				return fl;
+			}
+		});
+
+		return gson.create().fromJson(s, MapDocument.class);
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * Decode.
+	 *
+	 * @param bytes
+	 *            the bytes
+	 * @return the map document
+	 */
+	public static MapDocument decode(final byte[] bytes) {
+		return decode(new String(bytes));
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * To string.
+	 *
+	 * @param doc
+	 *            the doc
+	 * @return the string
+	 */
+	public static String toString(final MapDocument doc) {
+		final GsonBuilder b = new GsonBuilder();
+		return b.setPrettyPrinting().create().toJson(doc);
+
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * To byte array.
+	 *
+	 * @param doc
+	 *            the doc
+	 * @return the byte[]
+	 */
+	public static byte[] toByteArray(final MapDocument doc) {
+		return toString(doc).getBytes();
+	}
+
+}

dhp-pace-core/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/pace/model/Person.java

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+
+package eu.dnetlib.pace.model;
+
+import java.nio.charset.Charset;
+import java.text.Normalizer;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.Set;
+
+import com.google.common.base.Joiner;
+import com.google.common.base.Splitter;
+import com.google.common.collect.Iterables;
+import com.google.common.collect.Lists;
+import com.google.common.hash.Hashing;
+
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.common.AbstractPaceFunctions;
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.util.Capitalise;
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.util.DotAbbreviations;
+
+public class Person {
+
+	private static final String UTF8 = "UTF-8";
+	private List<String> name = Lists.newArrayList();
+	private List<String> surname = Lists.newArrayList();
+	private List<String> fullname = Lists.newArrayList();
+	private final String original;
+
+	private static Set<String> particles = null;
+
+	public Person(String s, final boolean aggressive) {
+		original = s;
+		s = Normalizer.normalize(s, Normalizer.Form.NFD);
+		s = s.replaceAll("\\(.+\\)", "");
+		s = s.replaceAll("\\[.+\\]", "");
+		s = s.replaceAll("\\{.+\\}", "");
+		s = s.replaceAll("\\s+-\\s+", "-");
+		s = s.replaceAll("[\\p{Punct}&&[^,-]]", " ");
+		s = s.replaceAll("\\d", " ");
+		s = s.replaceAll("\\n", " ");
+		s = s.replaceAll("\\.", " ");
+		s = s.replaceAll("\\s+", " ");
+
+		if (aggressive) {
+			s = s.replaceAll("[\\p{InCombiningDiacriticalMarks}&&[^,-]]", "");
+			// s = s.replaceAll("[\\W&&[^,-]]", "");
+		}
+
+		if (s.contains(",")) { // if the name contains a comma it is easy derivable the name and the surname
+			final String[] arr = s.split(",");
+			if (arr.length == 1) {
+				fullname = splitTerms(arr[0]);
+			} else if (arr.length > 1) {
+				surname = splitTerms(arr[0]);
+				name = splitTerms(arr[1]);
+				fullname.addAll(surname);
+				fullname.addAll(name);
+			}
+		} else {
+			fullname = splitTerms(s);
+
+			int lastInitialPosition = fullname.size();
+			boolean hasSurnameInUpperCase = false;
+
+			for (int i = 0; i < fullname.size(); i++) {
+				final String term = fullname.get(i);
+				if (term.length() == 1) {
+					lastInitialPosition = i;
+				} else if (term.equals(term.toUpperCase())) {
+					hasSurnameInUpperCase = true;
+				}
+			}
+
+			if (lastInitialPosition < (fullname.size() - 1)) { // Case: Michele G. Artini
+				name = fullname.subList(0, lastInitialPosition + 1);
+				surname = fullname.subList(lastInitialPosition + 1, fullname.size());
+			} else if (hasSurnameInUpperCase) { // Case: Michele ARTINI
+				for (final String term : fullname) {
+					if ((term.length() > 1) && term.equals(term.toUpperCase())) {
+						surname.add(term);
+					} else {
+						name.add(term);
+					}
+				}
+			}
+		}
+	}
+
+	private List<String> splitTerms(final String s) {
+		if (particles == null) {
+			particles = AbstractPaceFunctions.loadFromClasspath("/eu/dnetlib/pace/config/name_particles.txt");
+		}
+
+		final List<String> list = Lists.newArrayList();
+		for (final String part : Splitter.on(" ").omitEmptyStrings().split(s)) {
+			if (!particles.contains(part.toLowerCase())) {
+				list.add(part);
+			}
+		}
+		return list;
+	}
+
+	public List<String> getName() {
+		return name;
+	}
+
+	public String getNameString() {
+		return Joiner.on(" ").join(getName());
+	}
+
+	public List<String> getSurname() {
+		return surname;
+	}
+
+	public List<String> getFullname() {
+		return fullname;
+	}
+
+	public String getOriginal() {
+		return original;
+	}
+
+	public String hash() {
+		return Hashing.murmur3_128().hashString(getNormalisedFullname(), Charset.forName(UTF8)).toString();
+	}
+
+	public String getNormalisedFirstName() {
+		return Joiner.on(" ").join(getCapitalFirstnames());
+	}
+
+	public String getNormalisedSurname() {
+		return Joiner.on(" ").join(getCapitalSurname());
+	}
+
+	public String getSurnameString() {
+		return Joiner.on(" ").join(getSurname());
+	}
+
+	public String getNormalisedFullname() {
+		return isAccurate() ? getNormalisedSurname() + ", " + getNormalisedFirstName() : Joiner.on(" ").join(fullname);
+	}
+
+	public List<String> getCapitalFirstnames() {
+		return Lists.newArrayList(Iterables.transform(getNameWithAbbreviations(), new Capitalise()));
+	}
+
+	public List<String> getCapitalSurname() {
+		return Lists.newArrayList(Iterables.transform(surname, new Capitalise()));
+	}
+
+	public List<String> getNameWithAbbreviations() {
+		return Lists.newArrayList(Iterables.transform(name, new DotAbbreviations()));
+	}
+
+	public boolean isAccurate() {
+		return ((name != null) && (surname != null) && !name.isEmpty() && !surname.isEmpty());
+	}
+}

dhp-pace-core/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/pace/model/PersonComparatorUtils.java

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+
+package eu.dnetlib.pace.model;
+
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.Collections;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.Set;
+
+import com.google.common.collect.Lists;
+import com.google.common.collect.Sets;
+
+public class PersonComparatorUtils {
+
+	private static final int MAX_FULLNAME_LENGTH = 50;
+
+	public static Set<String> getNgramsForPerson(String fullname) {
+
+		Set<String> set = Sets.newHashSet();
+
+		if (fullname.length() > MAX_FULLNAME_LENGTH) {
+			return set;
+		}
+
+		Person p = new Person(fullname, true);
+
+		if (p.isAccurate()) {
+			for (String name : p.getName()) {
+				for (String surname : p.getSurname()) {
+					set.add((name.charAt(0) + "_" + surname).toLowerCase());
+				}
+			}
+		} else {
+			List<String> list = p.getFullname();
+			for (int i = 0; i < list.size(); i++) {
+				if (list.get(i).length() > 1) {
+					for (int j = 0; j < list.size(); j++) {
+						if (i != j) {
+							set.add((list.get(j).charAt(0) + "_" + list.get(i)).toLowerCase());
+						}
+					}
+				}
+			}
+		}
+
+		return set;
+	}
+
+	public static boolean areSimilar(String s1, String s2) {
+		Person p1 = new Person(s1, true);
+		Person p2 = new Person(s2, true);
+
+		if (p1.isAccurate() && p2.isAccurate()) {
+			return verifyNames(p1.getName(), p2.getName()) && verifySurnames(p1.getSurname(), p2.getSurname());
+		} else {
+			return verifyFullnames(p1.getFullname(), p2.getFullname());
+		}
+	}
+
+	private static boolean verifyNames(List<String> list1, List<String> list2) {
+		return verifySimilarity(extractExtendedNames(list1), extractExtendedNames(list2))
+			&& verifySimilarity(extractInitials(list1), extractInitials(list2));
+	}
+
+	private static boolean verifySurnames(List<String> list1, List<String> list2) {
+		if (list1.size() != list2.size()) {
+			return false;
+		}
+		for (int i = 0; i < list1.size(); i++) {
+			if (!list1.get(i).equalsIgnoreCase(list2.get(i))) {
+				return false;
+			}
+		}
+		return true;
+	}
+
+	private static boolean verifyFullnames(List<String> list1, List<String> list2) {
+		Collections.sort(list1);
+		Collections.sort(list2);
+		return verifySimilarity(extractExtendedNames(list1), extractExtendedNames(list2))
+			&& verifySimilarity(extractInitials(list1), extractInitials(list2));
+	}
+
+	private static List<String> extractExtendedNames(List<String> list) {
+		ArrayList<String> res = Lists.newArrayList();
+		for (String s : list) {
+			if (s.length() > 1) {
+				res.add(s.toLowerCase());
+			}
+		}
+		return res;
+	}
+
+	private static List<String> extractInitials(List<String> list) {
+		ArrayList<String> res = Lists.newArrayList();
+		for (String s : list) {
+			res.add(s.substring(0, 1).toLowerCase());
+		}
+		return res;
+	}
+
+	private static boolean verifySimilarity(List<String> list1, List<String> list2) {
+		if (list1.size() > list2.size()) {
+			return verifySimilarity(list2, list1);
+		}
+
+		// NB: List2 is greater than list1 (or equal)
+		int pos = -1;
+		for (String s : list1) {
+			int curr = list2.indexOf(s);
+			if (curr > pos) {
+				list2.set(curr, "*"); // I invalidate the found element, example: "amm - amm"
+				pos = curr;
+			} else {
+				return false;
+			}
+		}
+		return true;
+	}
+}

dhp-pace-core/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/pace/tree/AlwaysMatch.java

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+
+package eu.dnetlib.pace.tree;
+
+import java.util.Map;
+
+import com.wcohen.ss.AbstractStringDistance;
+
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.config.Config;
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.model.Field;
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.tree.support.AbstractComparator;
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.tree.support.ComparatorClass;
+
+@ComparatorClass("alwaysMatch")
+public class AlwaysMatch extends AbstractComparator {
+
+	public AlwaysMatch(final Map<String, String> params) {
+		super(params, new com.wcohen.ss.JaroWinkler());
+	}
+
+	public AlwaysMatch(final double weight) {
+		super(weight, new com.wcohen.ss.JaroWinkler());
+	}
+
+	protected AlwaysMatch(final double weight, final AbstractStringDistance ssalgo) {
+		super(weight, ssalgo);
+	}
+
+	@Override
+	public double compare(final Field a, final Field b, final Config conf) {
+		return 1.0;
+	}
+
+	@Override
+	public double getWeight() {
+		return super.weight;
+	}
+
+	@Override
+	protected double normalize(final double d) {
+		return d;
+	}
+
+}

dhp-pace-core/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/pace/tree/AuthorsMatch.java

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+
+package eu.dnetlib.pace.tree;
+
+import java.util.Comparator;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.Map;
+import java.util.function.Function;
+import java.util.stream.Collectors;
+import java.util.stream.Stream;
+
+import com.google.common.collect.Iterables;
+import com.wcohen.ss.AbstractStringDistance;
+
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.config.Config;
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.model.Field;
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.model.FieldList;
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.model.Person;
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.tree.support.AbstractComparator;
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.tree.support.ComparatorClass;
+
+@ComparatorClass("authorsMatch")
+public class AuthorsMatch extends AbstractComparator {
+
+	Map<String, String> params;
+
+	private double SURNAME_THRESHOLD;
+	private double NAME_THRESHOLD;
+	private double FULLNAME_THRESHOLD;
+	private String MODE; // full or surname
+	private int SIZE_THRESHOLD;
+	private String TYPE; // count or percentage
+	private int common;
+
+	public AuthorsMatch(Map<String, String> params) {
+		super(params, new com.wcohen.ss.JaroWinkler());
+		this.params = params;
+
+		MODE = params.getOrDefault("mode", "full");
+		SURNAME_THRESHOLD = Double.parseDouble(params.getOrDefault("surname_th", "0.95"));
+		NAME_THRESHOLD = Double.parseDouble(params.getOrDefault("name_th", "0.95"));
+		FULLNAME_THRESHOLD = Double.parseDouble(params.getOrDefault("fullname_th", "0.9"));
+		SIZE_THRESHOLD = Integer.parseInt(params.getOrDefault("size_th", "20"));
+		TYPE = params.getOrDefault("type", "percentage");
+		common = 0;
+	}
+
+	protected AuthorsMatch(double w, AbstractStringDistance ssalgo) {
+		super(w, ssalgo);
+	}
+
+	@Override
+	public double compare(final Field a, final Field b, final Config conf) {
+
+		if (a.isEmpty() || b.isEmpty())
+			return -1;
+
+		if (((FieldList) a).size() > SIZE_THRESHOLD || ((FieldList) b).size() > SIZE_THRESHOLD)
+			return 1.0;
+
+		List<Person> aList = ((FieldList) a)
+			.stringList()
+			.stream()
+			.map(author -> new Person(author, false))
+			.collect(Collectors.toList());
+		List<Person> bList = ((FieldList) b)
+			.stringList()
+			.stream()
+			.map(author -> new Person(author, false))
+			.collect(Collectors.toList());
+
+		common = 0;
+		// compare each element of List1 with each element of List2
+		for (Person p1 : aList)
+
+			for (Person p2 : bList) {
+
+				// both persons are inaccurate
+				if (!p1.isAccurate() && !p2.isAccurate()) {
+					// compare just normalized fullnames
+					String fullname1 = normalization(
+						p1.getNormalisedFullname().isEmpty() ? p1.getOriginal() : p1.getNormalisedFullname());
+					String fullname2 = normalization(
+						p2.getNormalisedFullname().isEmpty() ? p2.getOriginal() : p2.getNormalisedFullname());
+
+					if (ssalgo.score(fullname1, fullname2) > FULLNAME_THRESHOLD) {
+						common += 1;
+						break;
+					}
+				}
+
+				// one person is inaccurate
+				if (p1.isAccurate() ^ p2.isAccurate()) {
+					// prepare data
+					// data for the accurate person
+					String name = normalization(
+						p1.isAccurate() ? p1.getNormalisedFirstName() : p2.getNormalisedFirstName());
+					String surname = normalization(
+						p1.isAccurate() ? p1.getNormalisedSurname() : p2.getNormalisedSurname());
+
+					// data for the inaccurate person
+					String fullname = normalization(
+						p1.isAccurate()
+							? ((p2.getNormalisedFullname().isEmpty()) ? p2.getOriginal() : p2.getNormalisedFullname())
+							: (p1.getNormalisedFullname().isEmpty() ? p1.getOriginal() : p1.getNormalisedFullname()));
+
+					if (fullname.contains(surname)) {
+						if (MODE.equals("full")) {
+							if (fullname.contains(name)) {
+								common += 1;
+								break;
+							}
+						} else { // MODE equals "surname"
+							common += 1;
+							break;
+						}
+					}
+				}
+
+				// both persons are accurate
+				if (p1.isAccurate() && p2.isAccurate()) {
+
+					if (compareSurname(p1, p2)) {
+						if (MODE.equals("full")) {
+							if (compareFirstname(p1, p2)) {
+								common += 1;
+								break;
+							}
+						} else { // MODE equals "surname"
+							common += 1;
+							break;
+						}
+					}
+
+				}
+
+			}
+
+		// normalization factor to compute the score
+		int normFactor = aList.size() == bList.size() ? aList.size() : (aList.size() + bList.size() - common);
+
+		if (TYPE.equals("percentage")) {
+			return (double) common / normFactor;
+		} else {
+			return (double) common;
+		}
+	}
+
+	public boolean compareSurname(Person p1, Person p2) {
+		return ssalgo
+			.score(
+				normalization(p1.getNormalisedSurname()), normalization(p2.getNormalisedSurname())) > SURNAME_THRESHOLD;
+	}
+
+	public boolean compareFirstname(Person p1, Person p2) {
+
+		if (p1.getNormalisedFirstName().length() <= 2 || p2.getNormalisedFirstName().length() <= 2) {
+			if (firstLC(p1.getNormalisedFirstName()).equals(firstLC(p2.getNormalisedFirstName())))
+				return true;
+		}
+
+		return ssalgo
+			.score(
+				normalization(p1.getNormalisedFirstName()),
+				normalization(p2.getNormalisedFirstName())) > NAME_THRESHOLD;
+	}
+
+	public String normalization(String s) {
+		return normalize(utf8(cleanup(s)));
+	}
+
+}

dhp-pace-core/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/pace/tree/CityMatch.java

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+
+package eu.dnetlib.pace.tree;
+
+import java.util.Map;
+import java.util.Set;
+
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.config.Config;
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.tree.support.AbstractComparator;
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.tree.support.ComparatorClass;
+
+@ComparatorClass("cityMatch")
+public class CityMatch extends AbstractComparator {
+
+	private Map<String, String> params;
+
+	public CityMatch(Map<String, String> params) {
+		super(params);
+		this.params = params;
+	}
+
+	@Override
+	public double distance(final String a, final String b, final Config conf) {
+
+		String ca = cleanup(a);
+		String cb = cleanup(b);
+
+		ca = normalize(ca);
+		cb = normalize(cb);
+
+		ca = filterAllStopWords(ca);
+		cb = filterAllStopWords(cb);
+
+		Set<String> cities1 = getCities(ca, Integer.parseInt(params.getOrDefault("windowSize", "4")));
+		Set<String> cities2 = getCities(cb, Integer.parseInt(params.getOrDefault("windowSize", "4")));
+
+		Set<String> codes1 = citiesToCodes(cities1);
+		Set<String> codes2 = citiesToCodes(cities2);
+
+		// if no cities are detected, the comparator gives 1.0
+		if (codes1.isEmpty() && codes2.isEmpty())
+			return 1.0;
+		else {
+			if (codes1.isEmpty() ^ codes2.isEmpty())
+				return -1; // undefined if one of the two has no cities
+			return commonElementsPercentage(codes1, codes2);
+		}
+	}
+}

dhp-pace-core/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/pace/tree/CosineSimilarity.java

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+
+package eu.dnetlib.pace.tree;
+
+import java.util.HashMap;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.Map;
+import java.util.stream.Collectors;
+
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.config.Config;
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.model.Field;
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.model.FieldList;
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.model.FieldValueImpl;
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.model.Person;
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.tree.support.AbstractComparator;
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.tree.support.ComparatorClass;
+
+@ComparatorClass("cosineSimilarity")
+public class CosineSimilarity extends AbstractComparator {
+
+	Map<String, String> params;
+
+	public CosineSimilarity(Map<String, String> params) {
+		super(params);
+	}
+
+	@Override
+	public double compare(final Field a, final Field b, final Config conf) {
+
+		if (a.isEmpty() || b.isEmpty())
+			return -1;
+
+		double[] aVector = ((FieldValueImpl) a).doubleArrayValue();
+		double[] bVector = ((FieldValueImpl) b).doubleArrayValue();
+
+		return cosineSimilarity(aVector, bVector);
+	}
+
+	double cosineSimilarity(double[] a, double[] b) {
+		double dotProduct = 0;
+		double normASum = 0;
+		double normBSum = 0;
+
+		for (int i = 0; i < a.length; i++) {
+			dotProduct += a[i] * b[i];
+			normASum += a[i] * a[i];
+			normBSum += b[i] * b[i];
+		}
+
+		double eucledianDist = Math.sqrt(normASum) * Math.sqrt(normBSum);
+		return dotProduct / eucledianDist;
+	}
+
+}

dhp-pace-core/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/pace/tree/DoiExactMatch.java

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+
+package eu.dnetlib.pace.tree;
+
+import java.util.Map;
+
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.model.Field;
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.tree.support.ComparatorClass;
+
+/**
+ * The Class ExactMatch.
+ *
+ * @author claudio
+ */
+@ComparatorClass("doiExactMatch")
+public class DoiExactMatch extends ExactMatchIgnoreCase {
+
+	public final String PREFIX = "(http:\\/\\/dx\\.doi\\.org\\/)|(doi:)";
+
+	public DoiExactMatch(final Map<String, String> params) {
+		super(params);
+	}
+
+	@Override
+	protected String getValue(final Field f) {
+		return super.getValue(f).replaceAll(PREFIX, "");
+	}
+
+}

dhp-pace-core/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/pace/tree/DomainExactMatch.java

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+
+package eu.dnetlib.pace.tree;
+
+import java.net.MalformedURLException;
+import java.net.URL;
+import java.util.Map;
+
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.model.Field;
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.tree.support.ComparatorClass;
+
+@ComparatorClass("domainExactMatch")
+public class DomainExactMatch extends ExactMatchIgnoreCase {
+
+	public DomainExactMatch(final Map<String, String> params) {
+		super(params);
+	}
+
+	@Override
+	protected String getValue(final Field f) {
+
+		try {
+			return asUrl(super.getValue(f)).getHost();
+		} catch (MalformedURLException e) {
+			return "";
+		}
+	}
+
+	private URL asUrl(final String value) throws MalformedURLException {
+		return new URL(value);
+	}
+}

dhp-pace-core/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/pace/tree/ExactMatch.java

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+
+package eu.dnetlib.pace.tree;
+
+import java.util.Map;
+
+import com.wcohen.ss.AbstractStringDistance;
+
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.config.Config;
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.tree.support.AbstractComparator;
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.tree.support.ComparatorClass;
+
+@ComparatorClass("exactMatch")
+public class ExactMatch extends AbstractComparator {
+
+	public ExactMatch(Map<String, String> params) {
+		super(params, new com.wcohen.ss.JaroWinkler());
+	}
+
+	public ExactMatch(final double weight) {
+		super(weight, new com.wcohen.ss.JaroWinkler());
+	}
+
+	protected ExactMatch(final double weight, final AbstractStringDistance ssalgo) {
+		super(weight, ssalgo);
+	}
+
+	@Override
+	public double distance(final String a, final String b, final Config conf) {
+		if (a.isEmpty() || b.isEmpty()) {
+			return -1.0; // return -1 if a field is missing
+		}
+		return a.equals(b) ? 1.0 : 0;
+	}
+
+	@Override
+	public double getWeight() {
+		return super.weight;
+	}
+
+	@Override
+	protected double normalize(final double d) {
+		return d;
+	}
+}

dhp-pace-core/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/pace/tree/ExactMatchIgnoreCase.java

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+
+package eu.dnetlib.pace.tree;
+
+import java.util.Map;
+
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.config.Config;
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.model.Field;
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.tree.support.AbstractComparator;
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.tree.support.ComparatorClass;
+
+@ComparatorClass("exactMatchIgnoreCase")
+public class ExactMatchIgnoreCase extends AbstractComparator {
+
+	public ExactMatchIgnoreCase(Map<String, String> params) {
+		super(params);
+	}
+
+	@Override
+	public double compare(Field a, Field b, final Config conf) {
+
+		final String fa = getValue(a);
+		final String fb = getValue(b);
+
+		if (fa.isEmpty() || fb.isEmpty())
+			return -1;
+
+		return fa.equalsIgnoreCase(fb) ? 1 : 0;
+	}
+
+	protected String getValue(final Field f) {
+		return getFirstValue(f);
+	}
+}

dhp-pace-core/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/pace/tree/InstanceTypeMatch.java

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+
+package eu.dnetlib.pace.tree;
+
+import java.util.HashMap;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.Map;
+import java.util.Set;
+import java.util.stream.Collectors;
+
+import com.google.common.collect.Sets;
+
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.config.Config;
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.model.Field;
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.model.FieldList;
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.tree.support.AbstractComparator;
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.tree.support.ComparatorClass;
+
+@ComparatorClass("instanceTypeMatch")
+public class InstanceTypeMatch extends AbstractComparator {
+
+	final Map<String, String> translationMap = new HashMap<>();
+
+	public InstanceTypeMatch(Map<String, String> params) {
+		super(params);
+
+		// jolly types
+		translationMap.put("Conference object", "*");
+		translationMap.put("Other literature type", "*");
+		translationMap.put("Unknown", "*");
+
+		// article types
+		translationMap.put("Article", "Article");
+		translationMap.put("Data Paper", "Article");
+		translationMap.put("Software Paper", "Article");
+		translationMap.put("Preprint", "Article");
+
+		// thesis types
+		translationMap.put("Thesis", "Thesis");
+		translationMap.put("Master thesis", "Thesis");
+		translationMap.put("Bachelor thesis", "Thesis");
+		translationMap.put("Doctoral thesis", "Thesis");
+	}
+
+	@Override
+	public double compare(final Field a, final Field b, final Config conf) {
+
+		if (a == null || b == null) {
+			return -1;
+		}
+
+		final List<String> sa = ((FieldList) a).stringList();
+		final List<String> sb = ((FieldList) b).stringList();
+
+		if (sa.isEmpty() || sb.isEmpty()) {
+			return -1;
+		}
+
+		final Set<String> ca = sa.stream().map(this::translate).collect(Collectors.toSet());
+		final Set<String> cb = sb.stream().map(this::translate).collect(Collectors.toSet());
+
+		// if at least one is a jolly type, it must produce a match
+		if (ca.contains("*") || cb.contains("*"))
+			return 1.0;
+
+		int incommon = Sets.intersection(ca, cb).size();
+
+		// if at least one is in common, it must produce a match
+		return incommon >= 1 ? 1 : 0;
+	}
+
+	public String translate(String term) {
+		return translationMap.getOrDefault(term, term);
+	}
+
+	@Override
+	public double getWeight() {
+		return super.weight;
+	}
+
+	@Override
+	protected double normalize(final double d) {
+		return d;
+	}
+
+}

dhp-pace-core/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/pace/tree/JaroWinkler.java

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+
+package eu.dnetlib.pace.tree;
+
+import java.util.Map;
+
+import com.wcohen.ss.AbstractStringDistance;
+
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.config.Config;
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.tree.support.AbstractComparator;
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.tree.support.ComparatorClass;
+
+//case class JaroWinkler(w: Double) extends SecondStringDistanceAlgo(w, new com.wcohen.ss.JaroWinkler())
+@ComparatorClass("jaroWinkler")
+public class JaroWinkler extends AbstractComparator {
+
+	public JaroWinkler(Map<String, String> params) {
+		super(params, new com.wcohen.ss.JaroWinkler());
+	}
+
+	public JaroWinkler(double weight) {
+		super(weight, new com.wcohen.ss.JaroWinkler());
+	}
+
+	protected JaroWinkler(double weight, AbstractStringDistance ssalgo) {
+		super(weight, ssalgo);
+	}
+
+	@Override
+	public double distance(String a, String b, final Config conf) {
+		String ca = cleanup(a);
+		String cb = cleanup(b);
+
+		return normalize(ssalgo.score(ca, cb));
+	}
+
+	@Override
+	public double getWeight() {
+		return super.weight;
+	}
+
+	@Override
+	protected double normalize(double d) {
+		return d;
+	}
+
+}

dhp-pace-core/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/pace/tree/JaroWinklerNormalizedName.java

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+
+package eu.dnetlib.pace.tree;
+
+import java.util.Map;
+import java.util.Set;
+
+import com.wcohen.ss.AbstractStringDistance;
+
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.config.Config;
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.tree.support.AbstractComparator;
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.tree.support.ComparatorClass;
+
+@ComparatorClass("jaroWinklerNormalizedName")
+public class JaroWinklerNormalizedName extends AbstractComparator {
+
+	private Map<String, String> params;
+
+	public JaroWinklerNormalizedName(Map<String, String> params) {
+		super(params, new com.wcohen.ss.JaroWinkler());
+		this.params = params;
+	}
+
+	public JaroWinklerNormalizedName(double weight) {
+		super(weight, new com.wcohen.ss.JaroWinkler());
+	}
+
+	protected JaroWinklerNormalizedName(double weight, AbstractStringDistance ssalgo) {
+		super(weight, ssalgo);
+	}
+
+	@Override
+	public double distance(String a, String b, final Config conf) {
+		String ca = cleanup(a);
+		String cb = cleanup(b);
+
+		ca = normalize(ca);
+		cb = normalize(cb);
+
+		ca = filterAllStopWords(ca);
+		cb = filterAllStopWords(cb);
+
+		Set<String> keywords1 = getKeywords(
+			ca, conf.translationMap(), Integer.parseInt(params.getOrDefault("windowSize", "4")));
+		Set<String> keywords2 = getKeywords(
+			cb, conf.translationMap(), Integer.parseInt(params.getOrDefault("windowSize", "4")));
+
+		Set<String> cities1 = getCities(ca, Integer.parseInt(params.getOrDefault("windowSize", "4")));
+		Set<String> cities2 = getCities(cb, Integer.parseInt(params.getOrDefault("windowSize", "4")));
+
+		ca = removeKeywords(ca, keywords1);
+		ca = removeKeywords(ca, cities1);
+		cb = removeKeywords(cb, keywords2);
+		cb = removeKeywords(cb, cities2);
+
+		ca = ca.replaceAll("[ ]{2,}", " ");
+		cb = cb.replaceAll("[ ]{2,}", " ");
+
+		if (ca.isEmpty() && cb.isEmpty())
+			return 1.0;
+		else
+			return normalize(ssalgo.score(ca, cb));
+	}
+
+	@Override
+	public double getWeight() {
+		return super.weight;
+	}
+
+	@Override
+	protected double normalize(double d) {
+		return d;
+	}
+
+}

dhp-pace-core/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/pace/tree/JaroWinklerTitle.java

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+
+package eu.dnetlib.pace.tree;
+
+import java.util.Map;
+
+import com.wcohen.ss.AbstractStringDistance;
+
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.config.Config;
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.tree.support.AbstractComparator;
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.tree.support.ComparatorClass;
+
+//case class JaroWinkler(w: Double) extends SecondStringDistanceAlgo(w, new com.wcohen.ss.JaroWinkler())
+@ComparatorClass("jaroWinklerTitle")
+public class JaroWinklerTitle extends AbstractComparator {
+
+	public JaroWinklerTitle(Map<String, String> params) {
+		super(params, new com.wcohen.ss.JaroWinkler());
+	}
+
+	public JaroWinklerTitle(double weight) {
+		super(weight, new com.wcohen.ss.JaroWinkler());
+	}
+
+	protected JaroWinklerTitle(double weight, AbstractStringDistance ssalgo) {
+		super(weight, ssalgo);
+	}
+
+	@Override
+	public double distance(String a, String b, final Config conf) {
+		String ca = cleanup(a);
+		String cb = cleanup(b);
+
+		boolean check = checkNumbers(ca, cb);
+		return check ? 0.5 : normalize(ssalgo.score(ca, cb));
+	}
+
+	@Override
+	public double getWeight() {
+		return super.weight;
+	}
+
+	@Override
+	protected double normalize(double d) {
+		return d;
+	}
+
+}

dhp-pace-core/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/pace/tree/JsonListMatch.java

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+
+package eu.dnetlib.pace.tree;
+
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.Map;
+import java.util.Set;
+import java.util.stream.Collectors;
+
+import org.apache.commons.logging.Log;
+import org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory;
+
+import com.google.common.collect.Sets;
+
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.config.Config;
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.model.Field;
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.model.FieldList;
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.tree.support.AbstractComparator;
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.tree.support.ComparatorClass;
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.util.MapDocumentUtil;
+
+@ComparatorClass("jsonListMatch")
+public class JsonListMatch extends AbstractComparator {
+
+	private static final Log log = LogFactory.getLog(JsonListMatch.class);
+	private Map<String, String> params;
+
+	private String MODE; // "percentage" or "count"
+
+	public JsonListMatch(final Map<String, String> params) {
+		super(params);
+		this.params = params;
+
+		MODE = params.getOrDefault("mode", "percentage");
+	}
+
+	@Override
+	public double compare(final Field a, final Field b, final Config conf) {
+
+		final List<String> sa = ((FieldList) a).stringList();
+		final List<String> sb = ((FieldList) b).stringList();
+
+		if (sa.isEmpty() || sb.isEmpty()) {
+			return -1;
+		}
+
+		final Set<String> ca = sa.stream().map(this::toComparableString).collect(Collectors.toSet());
+		final Set<String> cb = sb.stream().map(this::toComparableString).collect(Collectors.toSet());
+
+		int incommon = Sets.intersection(ca, cb).size();
+		int simDiff = Sets.symmetricDifference(ca, cb).size();
+
+		if (incommon + simDiff == 0) {
+			return 0.0;
+		}
+
+		if (MODE.equals("percentage"))
+			return (double) incommon / (incommon + simDiff);
+		else
+			return incommon;
+
+	}
+
+	// converts every json into a comparable string basing on parameters
+	private String toComparableString(String json) {
+
+		StringBuilder st = new StringBuilder(); // to build the string used for comparisons basing on the jpath into
+												// parameters
+
+		// for each path in the param list
+		for (String key : params.keySet().stream().filter(k -> k.contains("jpath")).collect(Collectors.toList())) {
+			String path = params.get(key);
+			String value = MapDocumentUtil.getJPathString(path, json);
+			if (value == null || value.isEmpty())
+				value = "";
+			st.append(value + "::");
+		}
+
+		st.setLength(st.length() - 2);
+		return st.toString();
+	}
+}

dhp-pace-core/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/pace/tree/KeywordMatch.java

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+
+package eu.dnetlib.pace.tree;
+
+import java.util.Map;
+import java.util.Set;
+
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.config.Config;
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.tree.support.AbstractComparator;
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.tree.support.ComparatorClass;
+
+@ComparatorClass("keywordMatch")
+public class KeywordMatch extends AbstractComparator {
+
+	Map<String, String> params;
+
+	public KeywordMatch(Map<String, String> params) {
+		super(params);
+		this.params = params;
+	}
+
+	@Override
+	public double distance(final String a, final String b, final Config conf) {
+
+		String ca = cleanup(a);
+		String cb = cleanup(b);
+
+		ca = normalize(ca);
+		cb = normalize(cb);
+
+		ca = filterAllStopWords(ca);
+		cb = filterAllStopWords(cb);
+
+		Set<String> keywords1 = getKeywords(
+			ca, conf.translationMap(), Integer.parseInt(params.getOrDefault("windowSize", "4")));
+		Set<String> keywords2 = getKeywords(
+			cb, conf.translationMap(), Integer.parseInt(params.getOrDefault("windowSize", "4")));
+
+		Set<String> codes1 = toCodes(keywords1, conf.translationMap());
+		Set<String> codes2 = toCodes(keywords2, conf.translationMap());
+
+		// if no cities are detected, the comparator gives 1.0
+		if (codes1.isEmpty() && codes2.isEmpty())
+			return 1.0;
+		else {
+			if (codes1.isEmpty() ^ codes2.isEmpty())
+				return -1.0; // undefined if one of the two has no keywords
+			return commonElementsPercentage(codes1, codes2);
+		}
+	}
+}

dhp-pace-core/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/pace/tree/Level2JaroWinkler.java

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+
+package eu.dnetlib.pace.tree;
+
+import java.util.Map;
+
+import com.wcohen.ss.AbstractStringDistance;
+
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.tree.support.AbstractComparator;
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.tree.support.ComparatorClass;
+
+@ComparatorClass("level2JaroWinkler")
+public class Level2JaroWinkler extends AbstractComparator {
+
+	public Level2JaroWinkler(Map<String, String> params) {
+		super(params, new com.wcohen.ss.Level2JaroWinkler());
+	}
+
+	public Level2JaroWinkler(double w) {
+		super(w, new com.wcohen.ss.Level2JaroWinkler());
+	}
+
+	protected Level2JaroWinkler(double w, AbstractStringDistance ssalgo) {
+		super(w, ssalgo);
+	}
+
+	@Override
+	public double getWeight() {
+		return super.weight;
+	}
+
+	@Override
+	protected double normalize(double d) {
+		return d;
+	}
+
+}

dhp-pace-core/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/pace/tree/Level2JaroWinklerTitle.java

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+
+package eu.dnetlib.pace.tree;
+
+import java.util.Map;
+
+import com.wcohen.ss.AbstractStringDistance;
+
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.config.Config;
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.tree.support.AbstractComparator;
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.tree.support.ComparatorClass;
+
+@ComparatorClass("level2JaroWinklerTitle")
+public class Level2JaroWinklerTitle extends AbstractComparator {
+
+	public Level2JaroWinklerTitle(Map<String, String> params) {
+		super(params, new com.wcohen.ss.Level2JaroWinkler());
+	}
+
+	public Level2JaroWinklerTitle(final double w) {
+		super(w, new com.wcohen.ss.Level2JaroWinkler());
+	}
+
+	protected Level2JaroWinklerTitle(final double w, final AbstractStringDistance ssalgo) {
+		super(w, ssalgo);
+	}
+
+	@Override
+	public double distance(final String a, final String b, final Config conf) {
+		final String ca = cleanup(a);
+		final String cb = cleanup(b);
+
+		final boolean check = checkNumbers(ca, cb);
+
+		if (check)
+			return 0.5;
+
+		return ssalgo.score(ca, cb);
+	}
+
+	@Override
+	public double getWeight() {
+		return super.weight;
+	}
+
+	@Override
+	protected double normalize(final double d) {
+		return d;
+	}
+
+}

dhp-pace-core/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/pace/tree/Level2Levenstein.java

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+
+package eu.dnetlib.pace.tree;
+
+import java.util.Map;
+
+import com.wcohen.ss.AbstractStringDistance;
+
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.tree.support.AbstractComparator;
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.tree.support.ComparatorClass;
+
+@ComparatorClass("level2Levenstein")
+public class Level2Levenstein extends AbstractComparator {
+
+	public Level2Levenstein(Map<String, String> params) {
+		super(params, new com.wcohen.ss.Level2Levenstein());
+	}
+
+	public Level2Levenstein(double w) {
+		super(w, new com.wcohen.ss.Level2Levenstein());
+	}
+
+	protected Level2Levenstein(double w, AbstractStringDistance ssalgo) {
+		super(w, ssalgo);
+	}
+
+	@Override
+	public double getWeight() {
+		return super.weight;
+	}
+
+	@Override
+	protected double normalize(double d) {
+		return 1 / Math.pow(Math.abs(d) + 1, 0.1);
+	}
+
+}

dhp-pace-core/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/pace/tree/Levenstein.java

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+
+package eu.dnetlib.pace.tree;
+
+import java.util.Map;
+
+import com.wcohen.ss.AbstractStringDistance;
+
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.tree.support.AbstractComparator;
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.tree.support.ComparatorClass;
+
+@ComparatorClass("levenstein")
+public class Levenstein extends AbstractComparator {
+
+	public Levenstein(Map<String, String> params) {
+		super(params, new com.wcohen.ss.Levenstein());
+	}
+
+	public Levenstein(double w) {
+		super(w, new com.wcohen.ss.Levenstein());
+	}
+
+	protected Levenstein(double w, AbstractStringDistance ssalgo) {
+		super(w, ssalgo);
+	}
+
+	@Override
+	public double getWeight() {
+		return super.weight;
+	}
+
+	@Override
+	protected double normalize(double d) {
+		return 1 / Math.pow(Math.abs(d) + 1, 0.1);
+	}
+
+}

dhp-pace-core/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/pace/tree/LevensteinTitle.java

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+
+package eu.dnetlib.pace.tree;
+
+import java.util.Map;
+
+import org.apache.commons.logging.Log;
+import org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory;
+
+import com.wcohen.ss.AbstractStringDistance;
+
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.config.Config;
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.tree.support.AbstractComparator;
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.tree.support.ComparatorClass;
+
+@ComparatorClass("levensteinTitle")
+public class LevensteinTitle extends AbstractComparator {
+
+	private static final Log log = LogFactory.getLog(LevensteinTitle.class);
+
+	public LevensteinTitle(Map<String, String> params) {
+		super(params, new com.wcohen.ss.Levenstein());
+	}
+
+	public LevensteinTitle(final double w) {
+		super(w, new com.wcohen.ss.Levenstein());
+	}
+
+	protected LevensteinTitle(final double w, final AbstractStringDistance ssalgo) {
+		super(w, ssalgo);
+	}
+
+	@Override
+	public double distance(final String a, final String b, final Config conf) {
+		final String ca = cleanup(a);
+		final String cb = cleanup(b);
+
+		final boolean check = checkNumbers(ca, cb);
+
+		if (check)
+			return 0.5;
+
+		return normalize(ssalgo.score(ca, cb), ca.length(), cb.length());
+	}
+
+	private double normalize(final double score, final int la, final int lb) {
+		return 1 - (Math.abs(score) / Math.max(la, lb));
+	}
+
+	@Override
+	public double getWeight() {
+		return super.weight;
+	}
+
+	@Override
+	protected double normalize(final double d) {
+		return 1 / Math.pow(Math.abs(d) + 1, 0.1);
+	}
+
+}

dhp-pace-core/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/pace/tree/LevensteinTitleIgnoreVersion.java

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+
+package eu.dnetlib.pace.tree;
+
+import java.util.Map;
+
+import com.wcohen.ss.AbstractStringDistance;
+
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.config.Config;
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.tree.support.AbstractComparator;
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.tree.support.ComparatorClass;
+
+/**
+ * Compared compare between two titles, ignoring version numbers. Suitable for Software entities.
+ */
+@ComparatorClass("levensteinTitleIgnoreVersion")
+public class LevensteinTitleIgnoreVersion extends AbstractComparator {
+
+	public LevensteinTitleIgnoreVersion(Map<String, String> params) {
+		super(params, new com.wcohen.ss.Levenstein());
+	}
+
+	public LevensteinTitleIgnoreVersion(final double w) {
+		super(w, new com.wcohen.ss.Levenstein());
+	}
+
+	protected LevensteinTitleIgnoreVersion(final double w, final AbstractStringDistance ssalgo) {
+		super(w, ssalgo);
+	}
+
+	@Override
+	public double distance(final String a, final String b, final Config conf) {
+		String ca = cleanup(a);
+		String cb = cleanup(b);
+
+		ca = ca.replaceAll("\\d", "").replaceAll(getRomans(ca), "").trim();
+		cb = cb.replaceAll("\\d", "").replaceAll(getRomans(cb), "").trim();
+
+		ca = filterAllStopWords(ca);
+		cb = filterAllStopWords(cb);
+
+		return normalize(ssalgo.score(ca, cb), ca.length(), cb.length());
+	}
+
+	private double normalize(final double score, final int la, final int lb) {
+		return 1 - (Math.abs(score) / Math.max(la, lb));
+	}
+
+	@Override
+	public double getWeight() {
+		return super.weight;
+	}
+
+	@Override
+	protected double normalize(final double d) {
+		return 1 / Math.pow(Math.abs(d) + 1, 0.1);
+	}
+
+}

dhp-pace-core/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/pace/tree/ListContainsMatch.java

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+
+package eu.dnetlib.pace.tree;
+
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.Map;
+import java.util.Set;
+import java.util.stream.Collectors;
+
+import com.google.common.collect.Sets;
+
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.config.Config;
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.model.Field;
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.model.FieldList;
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.tree.support.AbstractComparator;
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.tree.support.ComparatorClass;
+
+/**
+ * The Class Contains match
+ *
+ * @author miconis
+ * */
+@ComparatorClass("listContainsMatch")
+public class ListContainsMatch extends AbstractComparator {
+
+	private Map<String, String> params;
+	private boolean CASE_SENSITIVE;
+	private String STRING;
+	private String AGGREGATOR;
+
+	public ListContainsMatch(Map<String, String> params) {
+		super(params);
+		this.params = params;
+
+		// read parameters
+		CASE_SENSITIVE = Boolean.parseBoolean(params.getOrDefault("caseSensitive", "false"));
+		STRING = params.get("string");
+		AGGREGATOR = params.get("bool");
+	}
+
+	@Override
+	public double compare(final Field a, final Field b, final Config conf) {
+
+		List<String> sa = ((FieldList) a).stringList();
+		List<String> sb = ((FieldList) b).stringList();
+
+		if (sa.isEmpty() || sb.isEmpty()) {
+			return -1;
+		}
+
+		if (!CASE_SENSITIVE) {
+			sa = sa.stream().map(String::toLowerCase).collect(Collectors.toList());
+			sb = sb.stream().map(String::toLowerCase).collect(Collectors.toList());
+			STRING = STRING.toLowerCase();
+		}
+
+		switch (AGGREGATOR) {
+			case "AND":
+				if (sa.contains(STRING) && sb.contains(STRING))
+					return 1.0;
+				break;
+			case "OR":
+				if (sa.contains(STRING) || sb.contains(STRING))
+					return 1.0;
+				break;
+			case "XOR":
+				if (sa.contains(STRING) ^ sb.contains(STRING))
+					return 1.0;
+				break;
+			default:
+				return 0.0;
+		}
+		return 0.0;
+
+	}
+}

dhp-pace-core/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/pace/tree/MustBeDifferent.java

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+
+package eu.dnetlib.pace.tree;
+
+import java.util.Map;
+
+import com.wcohen.ss.AbstractStringDistance;
+
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.config.Config;
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.tree.support.AbstractComparator;
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.tree.support.ComparatorClass;
+
+@ComparatorClass("mustBeDifferent")
+public class MustBeDifferent extends AbstractComparator {
+
+	public MustBeDifferent(Map<String, String> params) {
+		super(params, new com.wcohen.ss.Levenstein());
+	}
+
+	public MustBeDifferent(final double weight) {
+		super(weight, new com.wcohen.ss.JaroWinkler());
+	}
+
+	protected MustBeDifferent(final double weight, final AbstractStringDistance ssalgo) {
+		super(weight, ssalgo);
+	}
+
+	@Override
+	public double distance(final String a, final String b, final Config conf) {
+		return !a.equals(b) ? 1.0 : 0;
+	}
+
+	@Override
+	public double getWeight() {
+		return super.weight;
+	}
+
+	@Override
+	protected double normalize(final double d) {
+		return d;
+	}
+
+}

dhp-pace-core/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/pace/tree/NullDistanceAlgo.java

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+
+package eu.dnetlib.pace.tree;
+
+import java.util.Map;
+
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.config.Config;
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.model.Field;
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.tree.support.Comparator;
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.tree.support.ComparatorClass;
+
+/**
+ * Not all fields of a document need to partecipate in the compare measure. We model those fields as having a
+ * NullDistanceAlgo.
+ */
+@ComparatorClass("null")
+public class NullDistanceAlgo implements Comparator {
+
+	public NullDistanceAlgo(Map<String, String> params) {
+	}
+
+	@Override
+	public double compare(Field a, Field b, Config config) {
+		return 0;
+	}
+}

dhp-pace-core/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/pace/tree/NumbersComparator.java

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+
+package eu.dnetlib.pace.tree;
+
+import java.util.Map;
+
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.config.Config;
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.tree.support.AbstractComparator;
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.tree.support.ComparatorClass;
+
+@ComparatorClass("numbersComparator")
+public class NumbersComparator extends AbstractComparator {
+
+	Map<String, String> params;
+
+	public NumbersComparator(Map<String, String> params) {
+		super(params);
+		this.params = params;
+	}
+
+	@Override
+	public double distance(String a, String b, Config conf) {
+
+		// extracts numbers from the field
+		String numbers1 = getNumbers(nfd(a));
+		String numbers2 = getNumbers(nfd(b));
+
+		if (numbers1.isEmpty() || numbers2.isEmpty())
+			return -1.0;
+
+		int n1 = Integer.parseInt(numbers1);
+		int n2 = Integer.parseInt(numbers2);
+
+		return Math.abs(n1 - n2);
+	}
+}

dhp-pace-core/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/pace/tree/NumbersMatch.java

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+
+package eu.dnetlib.pace.tree;
+
+import java.util.Map;
+
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.config.Config;
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.tree.support.AbstractComparator;
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.tree.support.ComparatorClass;
+
+@ComparatorClass("numbersMatch")
+public class NumbersMatch extends AbstractComparator {
+
+	public NumbersMatch(Map<String, String> params) {
+		super(params);
+	}
+
+	@Override
+	public double distance(String a, String b, Config conf) {
+
+		// extracts numbers from the field
+		String numbers1 = getNumbers(nfd(a));
+		String numbers2 = getNumbers(nfd(b));
+
+		if (numbers1.isEmpty() && numbers2.isEmpty())
+			return 1.0;
+
+		if (numbers1.isEmpty() || numbers2.isEmpty())
+			return -1.0;
+
+		if (numbers1.equals(numbers2))
+			return 1.0;
+
+		return 0.0;
+	}
+}

dhp-pace-core/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/pace/tree/RomansMatch.java

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+
+package eu.dnetlib.pace.tree;
+
+import java.util.Map;
+
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.config.Config;
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.tree.support.AbstractComparator;
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.tree.support.ComparatorClass;
+
+@ComparatorClass("romansMatch")
+public class RomansMatch extends AbstractComparator {
+
+	public RomansMatch(Map<String, String> params) {
+		super(params);
+	}
+
+	@Override
+	public double distance(String a, String b, Config conf) {
+
+		// extracts romans from the field
+		String romans1 = getRomans(nfd(a));
+		String romans2 = getRomans(nfd(b));
+
+		if (romans1.isEmpty() && romans2.isEmpty())
+			return 1.0;
+
+		if (romans1.isEmpty() || romans2.isEmpty())
+			return -1.0;
+
+		if (romans1.equals(romans2))
+			return 1.0;
+
+		return 0.0;
+	}
+}

dhp-pace-core/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/pace/tree/SizeMatch.java

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+
+package eu.dnetlib.pace.tree;
+
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.Map;
+
+import com.google.common.collect.Iterables;
+
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.config.Config;
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.model.Field;
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.tree.support.AbstractComparator;
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.tree.support.ComparatorClass;
+
+/**
+ * Returns true if the number of values in the fields is the same.
+ *
+ * @author claudio
+ */
+@ComparatorClass("sizeMatch")
+public class SizeMatch extends AbstractComparator {
+
+	/**
+	 * Instantiates a new size match.
+	 *
+	 * @param params
+	 *            the parameters
+	 */
+	public SizeMatch(final Map<String, String> params) {
+		super(params);
+	}
+
+	@Override
+	public double compare(final Field a, final Field b, final Config conf) {
+
+		if (a.isEmpty() || b.isEmpty())
+			return -1;
+
+		return Iterables.size(a) == Iterables.size(b) ? 1 : 0;
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * Checks if is empty.
+	 *
+	 * @param a
+	 *            the a
+	 * @return true, if is empty
+	 */
+	protected boolean isEmpty(final Iterable<?> a) {
+		return (a == null) || Iterables.isEmpty(a);
+	}
+
+}

dhp-pace-core/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/pace/tree/SortedJaroWinkler.java

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+
+package eu.dnetlib.pace.tree;
+
+import java.util.Map;
+
+import com.wcohen.ss.AbstractStringDistance;
+
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.tree.support.AbstractSortedComparator;
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.tree.support.ComparatorClass;
+
+/**
+ * The Class SortedJaroWinkler.
+ */
+@ComparatorClass("sortedJaroWinkler")
+public class SortedJaroWinkler extends AbstractSortedComparator {
+
+	public SortedJaroWinkler(Map<String, String> params) {
+		super(params, new com.wcohen.ss.Levenstein());
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * Instantiates a new sorted jaro winkler.
+	 * 
+	 * @param weight
+	 *            the weight
+	 */
+	public SortedJaroWinkler(final double weight) {
+		super(weight, new com.wcohen.ss.JaroWinkler());
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * Instantiates a new sorted jaro winkler.
+	 * 
+	 * @param weight
+	 *            the weight
+	 * @param ssalgo
+	 *            the ssalgo
+	 */
+	protected SortedJaroWinkler(final double weight, final AbstractStringDistance ssalgo) {
+		super(weight, ssalgo);
+	}
+
+	/*
+	 * (non-Javadoc)
+	 * @see eu.dnetlib.pace.compare.DistanceAlgo#getWeight()
+	 */
+	@Override
+	public double getWeight() {
+		return super.weight;
+	}
+
+	/*
+	 * (non-Javadoc)
+	 * @see eu.dnetlib.pace.compare.SecondStringDistanceAlgo#normalize(double)
+	 */
+	@Override
+	protected double normalize(final double d) {
+		return d;
+	}
+
+}

dhp-pace-core/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/pace/tree/SortedLevel2JaroWinkler.java

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+
+package eu.dnetlib.pace.tree;
+
+import java.util.Map;
+
+import com.wcohen.ss.AbstractStringDistance;
+
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.tree.support.AbstractSortedComparator;
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.tree.support.ComparatorClass;
+
+/**
+ * The Class SortedJaroWinkler.
+ */
+@ComparatorClass("sortedLevel2JaroWinkler")
+public class SortedLevel2JaroWinkler extends AbstractSortedComparator {
+
+	/**
+	 * Instantiates a new sorted jaro winkler.
+	 * 
+	 * @param weight
+	 *            the weight
+	 */
+	public SortedLevel2JaroWinkler(final double weight) {
+		super(weight, new com.wcohen.ss.Level2JaroWinkler());
+	}
+
+	public SortedLevel2JaroWinkler(final Map<String, String> params) {
+		super(params, new com.wcohen.ss.Level2JaroWinkler());
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * Instantiates a new sorted jaro winkler.
+	 * 
+	 * @param weight
+	 *            the weight
+	 * @param ssalgo
+	 *            the ssalgo
+	 */
+	protected SortedLevel2JaroWinkler(final double weight, final AbstractStringDistance ssalgo) {
+		super(weight, ssalgo);
+	}
+
+	/*
+	 * (non-Javadoc)
+	 * @see eu.dnetlib.pace.compare.DistanceAlgo#getWeight()
+	 */
+	@Override
+	public double getWeight() {
+		return super.weight;
+	}
+
+	/*
+	 * (non-Javadoc)
+	 * @see eu.dnetlib.pace.compare.SecondStringDistanceAlgo#normalize(double)
+	 */
+	@Override
+	protected double normalize(final double d) {
+		return d;
+	}
+
+}

dhp-pace-core/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/pace/tree/StringContainsMatch.java

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+
+package eu.dnetlib.pace.tree;
+
+import java.util.Map;
+
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.config.Config;
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.tree.support.AbstractComparator;
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.tree.support.ComparatorClass;
+
+/**
+ * The Class Contains match
+ *
+ * @author miconis
+ * */
+@ComparatorClass("stringContainsMatch")
+public class StringContainsMatch extends AbstractComparator {
+
+	private Map<String, String> params;
+
+	private boolean CASE_SENSITIVE;
+	private String STRING;
+	private String AGGREGATOR;
+
+	public StringContainsMatch(Map<String, String> params) {
+		super(params);
+		this.params = params;
+
+		// read parameters
+		CASE_SENSITIVE = Boolean.parseBoolean(params.getOrDefault("caseSensitive", "false"));
+		STRING = params.get("string");
+		AGGREGATOR = params.get("aggregator");
+
+	}
+
+	@Override
+	public double distance(final String a, final String b, final Config conf) {
+
+		String ca = a;
+		String cb = b;
+		if (!CASE_SENSITIVE) {
+			ca = a.toLowerCase();
+			cb = b.toLowerCase();
+			STRING = STRING.toLowerCase();
+		}
+
+		if (AGGREGATOR != null) {
+			switch (AGGREGATOR) {
+				case "AND":
+					if (ca.contains(STRING) && cb.contains(STRING))
+						return 1.0;
+					break;
+				case "OR":
+					if (ca.contains(STRING) || cb.contains(STRING))
+						return 1.0;
+					break;
+				case "XOR":
+					if (ca.contains(STRING) ^ cb.contains(STRING))
+						return 1.0;
+					break;
+				default:
+					return 0.0;
+			}
+		}
+
+		return 0.0;
+	}
+}

dhp-pace-core/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/pace/tree/StringListMatch.java

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+
+package eu.dnetlib.pace.tree;
+
+import java.util.HashSet;
+import java.util.Map;
+import java.util.Set;
+
+import org.apache.commons.logging.Log;
+import org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory;
+
+import com.google.common.collect.Sets;
+
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.config.Config;
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.model.Field;
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.model.FieldList;
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.tree.support.AbstractComparator;
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.tree.support.ComparatorClass;
+
+@ComparatorClass("stringListMatch")
+public class StringListMatch extends AbstractComparator {
+
+	private static final Log log = LogFactory.getLog(StringListMatch.class);
+	private Map<String, String> params;
+
+	final private String TYPE; // percentage or count
+
+	public StringListMatch(final Map<String, String> params) {
+		super(params);
+		this.params = params;
+
+		TYPE = params.getOrDefault("type", "percentage");
+	}
+
+	@Override
+	public double compare(final Field a, final Field b, final Config conf) {
+
+		final Set<String> pa = new HashSet<>(((FieldList) a).stringList());
+		final Set<String> pb = new HashSet<>(((FieldList) b).stringList());
+
+		if (pa.isEmpty() || pb.isEmpty()) {
+			return -1; // return undefined if one of the two lists is empty
+		}
+
+		int incommon = Sets.intersection(pa, pb).size();
+		int simDiff = Sets.symmetricDifference(pa, pb).size();
+
+		if (incommon + simDiff == 0) {
+			return 0.0;
+		}
+
+		if (TYPE.equals("percentage"))
+			return (double) incommon / (incommon + simDiff);
+		else
+			return incommon;
+
+	}
+}

dhp-pace-core/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/pace/tree/SubStringLevenstein.java

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+
+package eu.dnetlib.pace.tree;
+
+import java.util.Map;
+
+import org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils;
+
+import com.wcohen.ss.AbstractStringDistance;
+
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.config.Config;
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.config.Type;
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.model.Field;
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.tree.support.AbstractComparator;
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.tree.support.ComparatorClass;
+
+/**
+ * The Class SubStringLevenstein.
+ */
+@ComparatorClass("subStringLevenstein")
+public class SubStringLevenstein extends AbstractComparator {
+
+	/** The limit. */
+	protected int limit;
+
+	/**
+	 * Instantiates a new sub string levenstein.
+	 * 
+	 * @param w
+	 *            the w
+	 */
+	public SubStringLevenstein(final double w) {
+		super(w, new com.wcohen.ss.Levenstein());
+	}
+
+	public SubStringLevenstein(Map<String, String> params) {
+		super(params, new com.wcohen.ss.Levenstein());
+		this.limit = Integer.parseInt(params.getOrDefault("limit", "1"));
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * Instantiates a new sub string levenstein.
+	 * 
+	 * @param w
+	 *            the w
+	 * @param limit
+	 *            the limit
+	 */
+	public SubStringLevenstein(final double w, final int limit) {
+		super(w, new com.wcohen.ss.Levenstein());
+		this.limit = limit;
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * Instantiates a new sub string levenstein.
+	 * 
+	 * @param w
+	 *            the w
+	 * @param limit
+	 *            the limit
+	 * @param ssalgo
+	 *            the ssalgo
+	 */
+	protected SubStringLevenstein(final double w, final int limit, final AbstractStringDistance ssalgo) {
+		super(w, ssalgo);
+		this.limit = limit;
+	}
+
+	/*
+	 * (non-Javadoc)
+	 * @see eu.dnetlib.pace.compare.SecondStringDistanceAlgo#compare(eu.dnetlib.pace.model.Field,
+	 * eu.dnetlib.pace.model.Field)
+	 */
+	@Override
+	public double distance(final Field a, final Field b, final Config conf) {
+		if (a.getType().equals(Type.String) && b.getType().equals(Type.String))
+			return distance(StringUtils.left(a.stringValue(), limit), StringUtils.left(b.stringValue(), limit), conf);
+
+		throw new IllegalArgumentException("invalid types\n- A: " + a.toString() + "\n- B: " + b.toString());
+	}
+
+	/*
+	 * (non-Javadoc)
+	 * @see eu.dnetlib.pace.compare.DistanceAlgo#getWeight()
+	 */
+	@Override
+	public double getWeight() {
+		return super.weight;
+	}
+
+	/*
+	 * (non-Javadoc)
+	 * @see eu.dnetlib.pace.compare.SecondStringDistanceAlgo#normalize(double)
+	 */
+	@Override
+	protected double normalize(final double d) {
+		return 1 / Math.pow(Math.abs(d) + 1, 0.1);
+	}
+
+}

dhp-pace-core/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/pace/tree/TitleVersionMatch.java

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+
+package eu.dnetlib.pace.tree;
+
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.Map;
+
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.config.Config;
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.model.Field;
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.tree.support.AbstractComparator;
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.tree.support.ComparatorClass;
+
+/**
+ * Returns true if the titles in the given documents contains the same numbers, false otherwise.
+ *
+ * @author claudio
+ *
+ */
+@ComparatorClass("titleVersionMatch")
+public class TitleVersionMatch extends AbstractComparator {
+
+	public TitleVersionMatch(final Map<String, String> params) {
+		super(params);
+	}
+
+	@Override
+	public double compare(final Field a, final Field b, final Config conf) {
+		final String valueA = getFirstValue(a);
+		final String valueB = getFirstValue(b);
+
+		if (valueA.isEmpty() || valueB.isEmpty())
+			return -1;
+
+		return notNull(valueA) && notNull(valueB) && !checkNumbers(valueA, valueB) ? 1 : 0;
+	}
+
+	@Override
+	public String toString() {
+		return getClass().getSimpleName() + ":" + super.toString();
+	}
+
+}

dhp-pace-core/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/pace/tree/UrlMatcher.java

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+
+package eu.dnetlib.pace.tree;
+
+import java.net.MalformedURLException;
+import java.net.URL;
+import java.util.Map;
+
+import org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils;
+
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.config.Config;
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.model.Field;
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.tree.support.ComparatorClass;
+
+@ComparatorClass("urlMatcher")
+public class UrlMatcher extends Levenstein {
+
+	private Map<String, String> params;
+
+	public UrlMatcher(Map<String, String> params) {
+		super(params);
+		this.params = params;
+	}
+
+	public UrlMatcher(double weight, Map<String, String> params) {
+		super(weight);
+		this.params = params;
+	}
+
+	public void setParams(Map<String, String> params) {
+		this.params = params;
+	}
+
+	@Override
+	public double distance(Field a, Field b, final Config conf) {
+		final URL urlA = asUrl(getFirstValue(a));
+		final URL urlB = asUrl(getFirstValue(b));
+
+		if (!urlA.getHost().equalsIgnoreCase(urlB.getHost())) {
+			return 0.0;
+		}
+
+		Double hostW = Double.parseDouble(params.getOrDefault("host", "0.5"));
+		Double pathW = Double.parseDouble(params.getOrDefault("path", "0.5"));
+
+		if (StringUtils.isBlank(urlA.getPath()) || StringUtils.isBlank(urlB.getPath())) {
+			return hostW * 0.5;
+		}
+
+		return hostW + pathW * super.distance(urlA.getPath(), urlB.getPath(), conf);
+	}
+
+	private URL asUrl(final String value) {
+		try {
+			return new URL(value);
+		} catch (MalformedURLException e) {
+			// should not happen as checked by pace typing
+			throw new IllegalStateException("invalid URL: " + value);
+		}
+	}
+
+}

dhp-pace-core/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/pace/tree/YearMatch.java

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+
+package eu.dnetlib.pace.tree;
+
+import java.util.Map;
+
+import org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils;
+
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.config.Config;
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.model.Field;
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.tree.support.AbstractComparator;
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.tree.support.ComparatorClass;
+
+/**
+ * Returns true if the year of the date field in the given documents are the same, false when any of the two is invalid or it's missing.
+ *
+ * @author claudio
+ */
+@ComparatorClass("yearMatch")
+public class YearMatch extends AbstractComparator {
+
+	private int limit = 4;
+
+	public YearMatch(final Map<String, String> params) {
+		super(params);
+	}
+
+	@Override
+	public double compare(final Field a, final Field b, final Config conf) {
+		final String valueA = getNumbers(getFirstValue(a));
+		final String valueB = getNumbers(getFirstValue(b));
+
+		if (valueA.isEmpty() || valueB.isEmpty())
+			return -1;
+
+		final boolean lengthMatch = checkLength(valueA) && checkLength(valueB);
+		final boolean onemissing = valueA.isEmpty() || valueB.isEmpty();
+
+		return lengthMatch && valueA.equals(valueB) || onemissing ? 1 : 0;
+	}
+
+	protected boolean checkLength(final String s) {
+		return s.length() == limit;
+	}
+
+	protected String getFirstValue(final Field value) {
+		return (value != null) && !value.isEmpty() ? StringUtils.left(value.stringValue(), limit) : "";
+	}
+
+	@Override
+	public String toString() {
+		return getClass().getSimpleName() + ":" + super.toString();
+	}
+}

dhp-pace-core/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/pace/tree/support/AbstractComparator.java

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+
+package eu.dnetlib.pace.tree.support;
+
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.Map;
+
+import com.wcohen.ss.AbstractStringDistance;
+
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.common.AbstractPaceFunctions;
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.config.Config;
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.config.Type;
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.model.Field;
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.model.FieldList;
+
+public abstract class AbstractComparator extends AbstractPaceFunctions implements Comparator {
+
+	/** The ssalgo. */
+	protected AbstractStringDistance ssalgo;
+
+	/** The weight. */
+	protected double weight = 0.0;
+
+	private Map<String, String> params;
+
+	protected AbstractComparator(Map<String, String> params) {
+		this.params = params;
+	}
+
+	protected AbstractComparator(Map<String, String> params, final AbstractStringDistance ssalgo) {
+		this.params = params;
+		this.weight = 1.0;
+		this.ssalgo = ssalgo;
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * Instantiates a new second string compare algo.
+	 *
+	 * @param weight
+	 *            the weight
+	 * @param ssalgo
+	 *            the ssalgo
+	 */
+	protected AbstractComparator(final double weight, final AbstractStringDistance ssalgo) {
+		this.ssalgo = ssalgo;
+		this.weight = weight;
+	}
+
+	protected AbstractComparator(final AbstractStringDistance ssalgo) {
+		this.ssalgo = ssalgo;
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * Normalize.
+	 *
+	 * @param d
+	 *            the d
+	 * @return the double
+	 */
+	protected double normalize(double d) {
+		return d;
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * Distance.
+	 *
+	 * @param a
+	 *            the a
+	 * @param b
+	 *            the b
+	 * @return the double
+	 */
+	public double distance(final String a, final String b, final Config conf) {
+
+		if (a.isEmpty() || b.isEmpty()) {
+			return -1; // return -1 if a field is missing
+		}
+		double score = ssalgo.score(a, b);
+		return normalize(score);
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * Distance.
+	 *
+	 * @param a
+	 *            the a
+	 * @param b
+	 *            the b
+	 * @return the double
+	 */
+	protected double distance(final List<String> a, final List<String> b, final Config conf) {
+		return distance(concat(a), concat(b), conf);
+	}
+
+	public double distance(final Field a, final Field b, final Config conf) {
+		if (a.getType().equals(Type.String) && b.getType().equals(Type.String))
+			return distance(a.stringValue(), b.stringValue(), conf);
+		if (a.getType().equals(Type.List) && b.getType().equals(Type.List))
+			return distance(toList(a), toList(b), conf);
+
+		throw new IllegalArgumentException("invalid types\n- A: " + a.toString() + "\n- B: " + b.toString());
+	}
+
+	@Override
+	public double compare(final Field a, final Field b, final Config conf) {
+		if (a.isEmpty() || b.isEmpty())
+			return -1;
+		if (a.getType().equals(Type.String) && b.getType().equals(Type.String))
+			return distance(a.stringValue(), b.stringValue(), conf);
+		if (a.getType().equals(Type.List) && b.getType().equals(Type.List))
+			return distance(toList(a), toList(b), conf);
+
+		throw new IllegalArgumentException("invalid types\n- A: " + a.toString() + "\n- B: " + b.toString());
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * To list.
+	 *
+	 * @param list
+	 *            the list
+	 * @return the list
+	 */
+	protected List<String> toList(final Field list) {
+		return ((FieldList) list).stringList();
+	}
+
+	public double getWeight() {
+		return this.weight;
+	}
+
+}

dhp-pace-core/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/pace/tree/support/AbstractSortedComparator.java

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+
+package eu.dnetlib.pace.tree.support;
+
+import java.util.Collections;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.Map;
+
+import com.google.common.collect.Lists;
+import com.wcohen.ss.AbstractStringDistance;
+
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.model.Field;
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.model.FieldList;
+
+public abstract class AbstractSortedComparator extends AbstractComparator {
+
+	/**
+	 * Instantiates a new sorted second string compare algo.
+	 *
+	 * @param weight
+	 *            the weight
+	 * @param ssalgo
+	 *            the ssalgo
+	 */
+	protected AbstractSortedComparator(final double weight, final AbstractStringDistance ssalgo) {
+		super(weight, ssalgo);
+	}
+
+	protected AbstractSortedComparator(final Map<String, String> params, final AbstractStringDistance ssalgo) {
+		super(Double.parseDouble(params.get("weight")), ssalgo);
+	}
+
+	@Override
+	protected List<String> toList(final Field list) {
+		FieldList fl = (FieldList) list;
+		List<String> values = Lists.newArrayList(fl.stringList());
+		Collections.sort(values);
+		return values;
+	}
+
+}

dhp-pace-core/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/pace/tree/support/AggType.java

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+
+package eu.dnetlib.pace.tree.support;
+
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.util.PaceException;
+
+public enum AggType {
+
+	W_MEAN, // weighted mean
+	AVG, // average
+	SUM, MAX, MIN, AND, // used for necessary conditions
+	OR; // used for sufficient conditions
+
+	public static AggType getEnum(String value) {
+
+		try {
+			return AggType.valueOf(value);
+		} catch (IllegalArgumentException e) {
+			throw new PaceException("Undefined aggregation type", e);
+		}
+	}
+}

dhp-pace-core/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/pace/tree/support/Comparator.java

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+
+package eu.dnetlib.pace.tree.support;
+
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.config.Config;
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.model.Field;
+
+public interface Comparator {
+
+	/*
+	 * return : -1 -> can't decide (i.e. missing field) >0 -> similarity degree (depends on the algorithm)
+	 */
+	public double compare(Field a, Field b, Config conf);
+
+}

dhp-pace-core/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/pace/tree/support/ComparatorClass.java

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+
+package eu.dnetlib.pace.tree.support;
+
+import java.lang.annotation.ElementType;
+import java.lang.annotation.Retention;
+import java.lang.annotation.RetentionPolicy;
+import java.lang.annotation.Target;
+
+@Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME)
+@Target(ElementType.TYPE)
+public @interface ComparatorClass {
+
+	public String value();
+}

dhp-pace-core/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/pace/tree/support/FieldConf.java

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+
+package eu.dnetlib.pace.tree.support;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.Serializable;
+import java.util.Map;
+
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
+
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.util.PaceException;
+
+/**
+ * The class that defines the configuration of each field in the decision tree.
+ * */
+public class FieldConf implements Serializable {
+
+	private String field; // name of the field on which apply the comparator
+	private String comparator; // comparator name
+	private double weight = 1.0; // weight for the field (to be used in the aggregation)
+	private Map<String, String> params; // parameters
+
+	private boolean countIfUndefined;
+
+	public boolean isCountIfUndefined() {
+		return countIfUndefined;
+	}
+
+	public void setCountIfUndefined(boolean countIfUndefined) {
+		this.countIfUndefined = countIfUndefined;
+	}
+
+	public FieldConf() {
+	}
+
+	public FieldConf(String field, String comparator, double weight, Map<String, String> params,
+		boolean countIfUndefined) {
+		this.field = field;
+		this.comparator = comparator;
+		this.weight = weight;
+		this.params = params;
+		this.countIfUndefined = countIfUndefined;
+	}
+
+	public String getField() {
+		return field;
+	}
+
+	public void setField(String field) {
+		this.field = field;
+	}
+
+	public String getComparator() {
+		return comparator;
+	}
+
+	public void setComparator(String comparator) {
+		this.comparator = comparator;
+	}
+
+	public double getWeight() {
+		return weight;
+	}
+
+	public void setWeight(double weight) {
+		this.weight = weight;
+	}
+
+	public Map<String, String> getParams() {
+		return params;
+	}
+
+	public void setParams(Map<String, String> params) {
+		this.params = params;
+	}
+
+	@Override
+	public String toString() {
+		try {
+			return new ObjectMapper().writeValueAsString(this);
+		} catch (IOException e) {
+			throw new PaceException("Impossible to convert to JSON: ", e);
+		}
+	}
+}

dhp-pace-core/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/pace/tree/support/FieldStats.java

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+
+package eu.dnetlib.pace.tree.support;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.Serializable;
+
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
+
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.model.Field;
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.util.PaceException;
+
+/**
+ * The class that contains the result of each comparison in the decision tree
+ * */
+public class FieldStats implements Serializable {
+
+	private double weight; // weight for the field (to be used in the aggregation)
+	private double threshold; // threshold for the field (to be used in some kind of aggregations)
+	private double result; // the result of the comparison
+	private Field a;
+	private Field b;
+
+	private boolean countIfUndefined;
+
+	public FieldStats(double weight, double threshold, double result, boolean countIfUndefined, Field a, Field b) {
+		this.weight = weight;
+		this.threshold = threshold;
+		this.result = result;
+		this.countIfUndefined = countIfUndefined;
+		this.a = a;
+		this.b = b;
+	}
+
+	public double getThreshold() {
+		return threshold;
+	}
+
+	public void setThreshold(double threshold) {
+		this.threshold = threshold;
+	}
+
+	public double getWeight() {
+		return weight;
+	}
+
+	public void setWeight(double weight) {
+		this.weight = weight;
+	}
+
+	public double getResult() {
+		return result;
+	}
+
+	public void setResult(double result) {
+		this.result = result;
+	}
+
+	public boolean isCountIfUndefined() {
+		return countIfUndefined;
+	}
+
+	public void setCountIfUndefined(boolean countIfUndefined) {
+		this.countIfUndefined = countIfUndefined;
+	}
+
+	public Field getA() {
+		return a;
+	}
+
+	public void setA(Field a) {
+		this.a = a;
+	}
+
+	public Field getB() {
+		return b;
+	}
+
+	public void setB(Field b) {
+		this.b = b;
+	}
+
+	@Override
+	public String toString() {
+		try {
+			return new ObjectMapper().writeValueAsString(this);
+		} catch (IOException e) {
+			throw new PaceException("Impossible to convert to JSON: ", e);
+		}
+	}
+}

dhp-pace-core/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/pace/tree/support/MatchType.java

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+
+package eu.dnetlib.pace.tree.support;
+
+public enum MatchType {
+
+	MATCH, NO_MATCH, UNDEFINED;
+
+	public static MatchType parse(String value) {
+
+		try {
+			return MatchType.valueOf(value);
+		} catch (IllegalArgumentException e) {
+			return MatchType.UNDEFINED; // return UNDEFINED if the enum is not parsable
+		}
+	}
+}

dhp-pace-core/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/pace/tree/support/TreeNodeDef.java

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+
+package eu.dnetlib.pace.tree.support;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.Serializable;
+import java.io.StringWriter;
+import java.util.List;
+
+import org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils;
+
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.core.JsonProcessingException;
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
+
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.config.Config;
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.config.PaceConfig;
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.model.MapDocument;
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.util.PaceException;
+
+public class TreeNodeDef implements Serializable {
+
+	final static String CROSS_COMPARE = "crossCompare";
+
+	private List<FieldConf> fields;
+	private AggType aggregation;
+
+	private double threshold;
+
+	private String positive;
+	private String negative;
+	private String undefined;
+
+	boolean ignoreUndefined;
+
+	public TreeNodeDef(List<FieldConf> fields, AggType aggregation, double threshold, String positive, String negative,
+		String undefined, boolean ignoreUndefined) {
+		this.fields = fields;
+		this.aggregation = aggregation;
+		this.threshold = threshold;
+		this.positive = positive;
+		this.negative = negative;
+		this.undefined = undefined;
+		this.ignoreUndefined = ignoreUndefined;
+	}
+
+	public TreeNodeDef() {
+	}
+
+	// function for the evaluation of the node
+	public TreeNodeStats evaluate(MapDocument doc1, MapDocument doc2, Config conf) {
+
+		TreeNodeStats stats = new TreeNodeStats();
+
+		// for each field in the node, it computes the
+		for (FieldConf fieldConf : fields) {
+
+			double weight = fieldConf.getWeight();
+
+			double result;
+
+			// if the param specifies a cross comparison (i.e. compare elements from different fields), compute the
+			// result for both sides and return the maximum
+			if (fieldConf.getParams().keySet().stream().anyMatch(k -> k.contains(CROSS_COMPARE))) {
+				String crossField = fieldConf.getParams().get(CROSS_COMPARE);
+				double result1 = comparator(fieldConf)
+					.compare(doc1.getFieldMap().get(fieldConf.getField()), doc2.getFieldMap().get(crossField), conf);
+				double result2 = comparator(fieldConf)
+					.compare(doc1.getFieldMap().get(crossField), doc2.getFieldMap().get(fieldConf.getField()), conf);
+				result = Math.max(result1, result2);
+			} else {
+				result = comparator(fieldConf)
+					.compare(
+						doc1.getFieldMap().get(fieldConf.getField()), doc2.getFieldMap().get(fieldConf.getField()),
+						conf);
+			}
+
+			stats
+				.addFieldStats(
+					fieldConf.getComparator() + " on " + fieldConf.getField() + " " + fields.indexOf(fieldConf),
+					new FieldStats(
+						weight,
+						Double.parseDouble(fieldConf.getParams().getOrDefault("threshold", "1.0")),
+						result,
+						fieldConf.isCountIfUndefined(),
+						doc1.getFieldMap().get(fieldConf.getField()),
+						doc2.getFieldMap().get(fieldConf.getField())));
+		}
+
+		return stats;
+	}
+
+	private Comparator comparator(final FieldConf field) {
+
+		return PaceConfig.resolver.getComparator(field.getComparator(), field.getParams());
+	}
+
+	public List<FieldConf> getFields() {
+		return fields;
+	}
+
+	public void setFields(List<FieldConf> fields) {
+		this.fields = fields;
+	}
+
+	public AggType getAggregation() {
+		return aggregation;
+	}
+
+	public void setAggregation(AggType aggregation) {
+		this.aggregation = aggregation;
+	}
+
+	public double getThreshold() {
+		return threshold;
+	}
+
+	public void setThreshold(double threshold) {
+		this.threshold = threshold;
+	}
+
+	public String getPositive() {
+		return positive;
+	}
+
+	public void setPositive(String positive) {
+		this.positive = positive;
+	}
+
+	public String getNegative() {
+		return negative;
+	}
+
+	public void setNegative(String negative) {
+		this.negative = negative;
+	}
+
+	public String getUndefined() {
+		return undefined;
+	}
+
+	public void setUndefined(String undefined) {
+		this.undefined = undefined;
+	}
+
+	public boolean isIgnoreUndefined() {
+		return ignoreUndefined;
+	}
+
+	public void setIgnoreUndefined(boolean ignoreUndefined) {
+		this.ignoreUndefined = ignoreUndefined;
+	}
+
+	@Override
+	public String toString() {
+		try {
+			return new ObjectMapper().writeValueAsString(this);
+		} catch (IOException e) {
+			throw new PaceException("Impossible to convert to JSON: ", e);
+		}
+	}
+}

dhp-pace-core/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/pace/tree/support/TreeNodeStats.java

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+
+package eu.dnetlib.pace.tree.support;
+
+import java.io.Serializable;
+import java.util.HashMap;
+import java.util.Map;
+
+public class TreeNodeStats implements Serializable {
+
+	private Map<String, FieldStats> results; // this is an accumulator for the results of the node
+
+	public TreeNodeStats() {
+		this.results = new HashMap<>();
+	}
+
+	public Map<String, FieldStats> getResults() {
+		return results;
+	}
+
+	public void addFieldStats(String id, FieldStats fieldStats) {
+		this.results.put(id, fieldStats);
+	}
+
+	public int fieldsCount() {
+		return this.results.size();
+	}
+
+	public int undefinedCount() {
+		int undefinedCount = 0;
+		for (FieldStats fs : this.results.values()) {
+			if (fs.getResult() == -1)
+				undefinedCount++;
+		}
+		return undefinedCount;
+	}
+
+	public double scoreSum() {
+		double scoreSum = 0.0;
+		for (FieldStats fs : this.results.values()) {
+			if (fs.getResult() >= 0.0) {
+				scoreSum += fs.getResult();
+			}
+		}
+		return scoreSum;
+	}
+
+	// return the sum of the weights without considering the fields with countIfMissing=false && result=-1
+	public double weightSum() {
+		double weightSum = 0.0;
+		for (FieldStats fs : this.results.values()) {
+			if (fs.getResult() >= 0.0 || (fs.getResult() < 0.0 && fs.isCountIfUndefined())) {
+				weightSum += fs.getWeight();
+			}
+		}
+		return weightSum;
+	}
+
+	public double weightedScoreSum() {
+		double weightedScoreSum = 0.0;
+		for (FieldStats fs : this.results.values()) {
+			if (fs.getResult() >= 0.0) {
+				weightedScoreSum += fs.getResult() * fs.getWeight();
+			}
+		}
+		return weightedScoreSum;
+	}
+
+	public double max() {
+		double max = -1.0;
+		for (FieldStats fs : this.results.values()) {
+			if (fs.getResult() > max)
+				max = fs.getResult();
+		}
+		return max;
+	}
+
+	public double min() {
+		double min = 100.0; // random high value
+		for (FieldStats fs : this.results.values()) {
+			if (fs.getResult() < min) {
+				if (fs.getResult() >= 0.0 || (fs.getResult() == -1 && fs.isCountIfUndefined()))
+					min = fs.getResult();
+			}
+		}
+		return min;
+	}
+
+	// if at least one is true, return 1.0
+	public double or() {
+		for (FieldStats fieldStats : this.results.values()) {
+			if (fieldStats.getResult() >= fieldStats.getThreshold())
+				return 1.0;
+		}
+		return 0.0;
+	}
+
+	// if at least one is false, return 0.0
+	public double and() {
+		for (FieldStats fieldStats : this.results.values()) {
+
+			if (fieldStats.getResult() == -1) {
+				if (fieldStats.isCountIfUndefined())
+					return 0.0;
+			} else {
+				if (fieldStats.getResult() < fieldStats.getThreshold())
+					return 0.0;
+			}
+
+		}
+		return 1.0;
+	}
+
+	public double getFinalScore(AggType aggregation) {
+
+		switch (aggregation) {
+			case AVG:
+				return scoreSum() / fieldsCount();
+			case SUM:
+				return scoreSum();
+			case MAX:
+				return max();
+			case MIN:
+				return min();
+			case W_MEAN:
+				return weightedScoreSum() / weightSum();
+			case OR:
+				return or();
+			case AND:
+				return and();
+			default:
+				return 0.0;
+		}
+	}
+}

dhp-pace-core/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/pace/tree/support/TreeProcessor.java

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+
+package eu.dnetlib.pace.tree.support;
+
+import org.apache.commons.logging.Log;
+import org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory;
+
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.config.Config;
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.model.MapDocument;
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.util.PaceException;
+
+/**
+ * The compare between two documents is given by the weighted mean of the field distances
+ */
+public class TreeProcessor {
+
+	private static final Log log = LogFactory.getLog(TreeProcessor.class);
+
+	private Config config;
+
+	public TreeProcessor(final Config config) {
+		this.config = config;
+	}
+
+	public boolean compare(final MapDocument a, final MapDocument b) {
+		// evaluate the decision tree
+		return evaluateTree(a, b).getResult() == MatchType.MATCH;
+	}
+
+	public TreeStats evaluateTree(final MapDocument doc1, final MapDocument doc2) {
+
+		TreeStats treeStats = new TreeStats();
+
+		String current = "start";
+
+		while (MatchType.parse(current) == MatchType.UNDEFINED) {
+
+			TreeNodeDef currentNode = config.decisionTree().get(current);
+			// throw an exception if the node doesn't exist
+			if (currentNode == null)
+				throw new PaceException("Missing tree node: " + current);
+
+			TreeNodeStats stats = currentNode.evaluate(doc1, doc2, config);
+			treeStats.addNodeStats(current, stats);
+
+			// if ignoreUndefined=false the miss is considered as undefined
+			if (!currentNode.isIgnoreUndefined() && stats.undefinedCount() > 0) {
+				current = currentNode.getUndefined();
+			}
+			// if ignoreUndefined=true the miss is ignored and the score computed anyway
+			else if (stats.getFinalScore(currentNode.getAggregation()) >= currentNode.getThreshold()) {
+				current = currentNode.getPositive();
+			} else {
+				current = currentNode.getNegative();
+			}
+
+		}
+
+		treeStats.setResult(MatchType.parse(current));
+		return treeStats;
+	}
+
+	public double computeScore(final MapDocument doc1, final MapDocument doc2) {
+		String current = "start";
+		double score = 0.0;
+
+		while (MatchType.parse(current) == MatchType.UNDEFINED) {
+
+			TreeNodeDef currentNode = config.decisionTree().get(current);
+			// throw an exception if the node doesn't exist
+			if (currentNode == null)
+				throw new PaceException("The Tree Node doesn't exist: " + current);
+
+			TreeNodeStats stats = currentNode.evaluate(doc1, doc2, config);
+
+			score = stats.getFinalScore(currentNode.getAggregation());
+			// if ignoreUndefined=false the miss is considered as undefined
+			if (!currentNode.isIgnoreUndefined() && stats.undefinedCount() > 0) {
+				current = currentNode.getUndefined();
+			}
+			// if ignoreUndefined=true the miss is ignored and the score computed anyway
+			else if (stats.getFinalScore(currentNode.getAggregation()) >= currentNode.getThreshold()) {
+				current = currentNode.getPositive();
+			} else {
+				current = currentNode.getNegative();
+			}
+
+		}
+
+		return score;
+	}
+
+}

dhp-pace-core/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/pace/tree/support/TreeStats.java

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+
+package eu.dnetlib.pace.tree.support;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.util.HashMap;
+import java.util.Map;
+
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
+
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.util.PaceException;
+
+public class TreeStats {
+
+	// <layer_id, <field:comparator, result>>
+	Map<String, TreeNodeStats> stats;
+	MatchType result;
+
+	public TreeStats() {
+		this.stats = new HashMap<>();
+		this.result = MatchType.NO_MATCH;
+	}
+
+	public MatchType getResult() {
+		return this.result;
+	}
+
+	public void setResult(MatchType result) {
+		this.result = result;
+	}
+
+	public Map<String, TreeNodeStats> getStats() {
+		return stats;
+	}
+
+	public void setStats(Map<String, TreeNodeStats> stats) {
+		this.stats = stats;
+	}
+
+	public void addNodeStats(String layerID, TreeNodeStats treeNodeStats) {
+		this.stats.put(layerID, treeNodeStats);
+	}
+
+	@Override
+	public String toString() {
+		try {
+			return new ObjectMapper().writerWithDefaultPrettyPrinter().writeValueAsString(this);
+		} catch (IOException e) {
+			throw new PaceException("Impossible to convert to JSON: ", e);
+		}
+	}
+
+}

dhp-pace-core/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/pace/util/BlockProcessor.java

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+
+package eu.dnetlib.pace.util;
+
+import java.util.*;
+
+import org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils;
+import org.apache.commons.logging.Log;
+import org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory;
+
+import com.google.common.collect.Lists;
+
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.clustering.NGramUtils;
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.config.DedupConfig;
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.config.WfConfig;
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.model.Field;
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.model.MapDocument;
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.model.MapDocumentComparator;
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.tree.support.TreeProcessor;
+
+public class BlockProcessor {
+
+	public static final List<String> accumulators = new ArrayList<>();
+
+	private static final Log log = LogFactory.getLog(BlockProcessor.class);
+
+	private DedupConfig dedupConf;
+
+	public static void constructAccumulator(final DedupConfig dedupConf) {
+		accumulators.add(String.format("%s::%s", dedupConf.getWf().getEntityType(), "records per hash key = 1"));
+		accumulators
+			.add(
+				String
+					.format(
+						"%s::%s", dedupConf.getWf().getEntityType(), "missing " + dedupConf.getWf().getOrderField()));
+		accumulators
+			.add(
+				String
+					.format(
+						"%s::%s", dedupConf.getWf().getEntityType(),
+						String
+							.format(
+								"Skipped records for count(%s) >= %s", dedupConf.getWf().getOrderField(),
+								dedupConf.getWf().getGroupMaxSize())));
+		accumulators.add(String.format("%s::%s", dedupConf.getWf().getEntityType(), "skip list"));
+		accumulators.add(String.format("%s::%s", dedupConf.getWf().getEntityType(), "dedupSimilarity (x2)"));
+		accumulators
+			.add(String.format("%s::%s", dedupConf.getWf().getEntityType(), "d < " + dedupConf.getWf().getThreshold()));
+	}
+
+	public BlockProcessor(DedupConfig dedupConf) {
+		this.dedupConf = dedupConf;
+	}
+
+	public void processSortedBlock(final String key, final List<MapDocument> documents, final Reporter context) {
+		if (documents.size() > 1) {
+//            log.info("reducing key: '" + key + "' records: " + q.size());
+			process(prepare(documents), context);
+
+		} else {
+			context.incrementCounter(dedupConf.getWf().getEntityType(), "records per hash key = 1", 1);
+		}
+	}
+
+	public void process(final String key, final Iterable<MapDocument> documents, final Reporter context) {
+
+		final Queue<MapDocument> q = prepare(documents);
+
+		if (q.size() > 1) {
+//            log.info("reducing key: '" + key + "' records: " + q.size());
+			process(simplifyQueue(q, key, context), context);
+
+		} else {
+			context.incrementCounter(dedupConf.getWf().getEntityType(), "records per hash key = 1", 1);
+		}
+	}
+
+	private Queue<MapDocument> prepare(final Iterable<MapDocument> documents) {
+		final Queue<MapDocument> queue = new PriorityQueue<>(100,
+			new MapDocumentComparator(dedupConf.getWf().getOrderField()));
+
+		final Set<String> seen = new HashSet<String>();
+		final int queueMaxSize = dedupConf.getWf().getQueueMaxSize();
+
+		documents.forEach(doc -> {
+			if (queue.size() <= queueMaxSize) {
+				final String id = doc.getIdentifier();
+
+				if (!seen.contains(id)) {
+					seen.add(id);
+					queue.add(doc);
+				}
+			}
+		});
+
+		return queue;
+	}
+
+	private Queue<MapDocument> simplifyQueue(final Queue<MapDocument> queue, final String ngram,
+		final Reporter context) {
+		final Queue<MapDocument> q = new LinkedList<>();
+
+		String fieldRef = "";
+		final List<MapDocument> tempResults = Lists.newArrayList();
+
+		while (!queue.isEmpty()) {
+			final MapDocument result = queue.remove();
+
+			final String orderFieldName = dedupConf.getWf().getOrderField();
+			final Field orderFieldValue = result.values(orderFieldName);
+			if (!orderFieldValue.isEmpty()) {
+				final String field = NGramUtils.cleanupForOrdering(orderFieldValue.stringValue());
+				if (field.equals(fieldRef)) {
+					tempResults.add(result);
+				} else {
+					populateSimplifiedQueue(q, tempResults, context, fieldRef, ngram);
+					tempResults.clear();
+					tempResults.add(result);
+					fieldRef = field;
+				}
+			} else {
+				context
+					.incrementCounter(
+						dedupConf.getWf().getEntityType(), "missing " + dedupConf.getWf().getOrderField(), 1);
+			}
+		}
+		populateSimplifiedQueue(q, tempResults, context, fieldRef, ngram);
+
+		return q;
+	}
+
+	private void populateSimplifiedQueue(final Queue<MapDocument> q,
+		final List<MapDocument> tempResults,
+		final Reporter context,
+		final String fieldRef,
+		final String ngram) {
+		WfConfig wf = dedupConf.getWf();
+		if (tempResults.size() < wf.getGroupMaxSize()) {
+			q.addAll(tempResults);
+		} else {
+			context
+				.incrementCounter(
+					wf.getEntityType(),
+					String.format("Skipped records for count(%s) >= %s", wf.getOrderField(), wf.getGroupMaxSize()),
+					tempResults.size());
+//            log.info("Skipped field: " + fieldRef + " - size: " + tempResults.size() + " - ngram: " + ngram);
+		}
+	}
+
+	private void process(final Queue<MapDocument> queue, final Reporter context) {
+
+		while (!queue.isEmpty()) {
+
+			final MapDocument pivot = queue.remove();
+			final String idPivot = pivot.getIdentifier();
+
+			WfConfig wf = dedupConf.getWf();
+			final Field fieldsPivot = pivot.values(wf.getOrderField());
+			final String fieldPivot = (fieldsPivot == null) || fieldsPivot.isEmpty() ? "" : fieldsPivot.stringValue();
+
+			if (fieldPivot != null) {
+				int i = 0;
+				for (final MapDocument curr : queue) {
+					final String idCurr = curr.getIdentifier();
+
+					if (mustSkip(idCurr)) {
+
+						context.incrementCounter(wf.getEntityType(), "skip list", 1);
+
+						break;
+					}
+
+					if (i > wf.getSlidingWindowSize()) {
+						break;
+					}
+
+					final Field fieldsCurr = curr.values(wf.getOrderField());
+					final String fieldCurr = (fieldsCurr == null) || fieldsCurr.isEmpty() ? null
+						: fieldsCurr.stringValue();
+
+					if (!idCurr.equals(idPivot) && (fieldCurr != null)) {
+
+						final TreeProcessor treeProcessor = new TreeProcessor(dedupConf);
+
+						emitOutput(treeProcessor.compare(pivot, curr), idPivot, idCurr, context);
+
+					}
+				}
+			}
+		}
+	}
+
+	private void emitOutput(final boolean result, final String idPivot, final String idCurr, final Reporter context) {
+
+		if (result) {
+			writeSimilarity(context, idPivot, idCurr);
+			context.incrementCounter(dedupConf.getWf().getEntityType(), "dedupSimilarity (x2)", 1);
+		} else {
+			context.incrementCounter(dedupConf.getWf().getEntityType(), "d < " + dedupConf.getWf().getThreshold(), 1);
+		}
+	}
+
+	private boolean mustSkip(final String idPivot) {
+		return dedupConf.getWf().getSkipList().contains(getNsPrefix(idPivot));
+	}
+
+	private String getNsPrefix(final String id) {
+		return StringUtils.substringBetween(id, "|", "::");
+	}
+
+	private void writeSimilarity(final Reporter context, final String from, final String to) {
+		final String type = dedupConf.getWf().getEntityType();
+
+		context.emit(type, from, to);
+		context.emit(type, to, from);
+	}
+
+}

dhp-pace-core/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/pace/util/BlockProcessorForTesting.java

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+
+package eu.dnetlib.pace.util;
+
+import java.util.*;
+
+import org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils;
+import org.apache.commons.logging.Log;
+import org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory;
+
+import com.google.common.collect.Lists;
+
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.clustering.NGramUtils;
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.config.DedupConfig;
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.config.WfConfig;
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.model.Field;
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.model.MapDocument;
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.model.MapDocumentComparator;
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.tree.*;
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.tree.support.TreeProcessor;
+
+public class BlockProcessorForTesting {
+
+	public static final List<String> accumulators = new ArrayList<>();
+
+	private static final Log log = LogFactory.getLog(eu.dnetlib.pace.util.BlockProcessorForTesting.class);
+
+	private DedupConfig dedupConf;
+
+	public static void constructAccumulator(final DedupConfig dedupConf) {
+		accumulators.add(String.format("%s::%s", dedupConf.getWf().getEntityType(), "records per hash key = 1"));
+		accumulators
+			.add(
+				String
+					.format(
+						"%s::%s", dedupConf.getWf().getEntityType(), "missing " + dedupConf.getWf().getOrderField()));
+		accumulators
+			.add(
+				String
+					.format(
+						"%s::%s", dedupConf.getWf().getEntityType(),
+						String
+							.format(
+								"Skipped records for count(%s) >= %s", dedupConf.getWf().getOrderField(),
+								dedupConf.getWf().getGroupMaxSize())));
+		accumulators.add(String.format("%s::%s", dedupConf.getWf().getEntityType(), "skip list"));
+		accumulators.add(String.format("%s::%s", dedupConf.getWf().getEntityType(), "dedupSimilarity (x2)"));
+		accumulators
+			.add(String.format("%s::%s", dedupConf.getWf().getEntityType(), "d < " + dedupConf.getWf().getThreshold()));
+	}
+
+	public BlockProcessorForTesting(DedupConfig dedupConf) {
+		this.dedupConf = dedupConf;
+	}
+
+	public void processSortedBlock(final String key, final List<MapDocument> documents, final Reporter context,
+		boolean useTree, boolean noMatch) {
+		if (documents.size() > 1) {
+//            log.info("reducing key: '" + key + "' records: " + q.size());
+			process(prepare(documents), context, useTree, noMatch);
+
+		} else {
+			context.incrementCounter(dedupConf.getWf().getEntityType(), "records per hash key = 1", 1);
+		}
+	}
+
+	public void process(final String key, final Iterable<MapDocument> documents, final Reporter context,
+		boolean useTree, boolean noMatch) {
+
+		final Queue<MapDocument> q = prepare(documents);
+
+		if (q.size() > 1) {
+//            log.info("reducing key: '" + key + "' records: " + q.size());
+			process(simplifyQueue(q, key, context), context, useTree, noMatch);
+
+		} else {
+			context.incrementCounter(dedupConf.getWf().getEntityType(), "records per hash key = 1", 1);
+		}
+	}
+
+	private Queue<MapDocument> prepare(final Iterable<MapDocument> documents) {
+		final Queue<MapDocument> queue = new PriorityQueue<>(100,
+			new MapDocumentComparator(dedupConf.getWf().getOrderField()));
+
+		final Set<String> seen = new HashSet<String>();
+		final int queueMaxSize = dedupConf.getWf().getQueueMaxSize();
+
+		documents.forEach(doc -> {
+			if (queue.size() <= queueMaxSize) {
+				final String id = doc.getIdentifier();
+
+				if (!seen.contains(id)) {
+					seen.add(id);
+					queue.add(doc);
+				}
+			}
+		});
+
+		return queue;
+	}
+
+	private Queue<MapDocument> simplifyQueue(final Queue<MapDocument> queue, final String ngram,
+		final Reporter context) {
+		final Queue<MapDocument> q = new LinkedList<>();
+
+		String fieldRef = "";
+		final List<MapDocument> tempResults = Lists.newArrayList();
+
+		while (!queue.isEmpty()) {
+			final MapDocument result = queue.remove();
+
+			final String orderFieldName = dedupConf.getWf().getOrderField();
+			final Field orderFieldValue = result.values(orderFieldName);
+			if (!orderFieldValue.isEmpty()) {
+				final String field = NGramUtils.cleanupForOrdering(orderFieldValue.stringValue());
+				if (field.equals(fieldRef)) {
+					tempResults.add(result);
+				} else {
+					populateSimplifiedQueue(q, tempResults, context, fieldRef, ngram);
+					tempResults.clear();
+					tempResults.add(result);
+					fieldRef = field;
+				}
+			} else {
+				context
+					.incrementCounter(
+						dedupConf.getWf().getEntityType(), "missing " + dedupConf.getWf().getOrderField(), 1);
+			}
+		}
+		populateSimplifiedQueue(q, tempResults, context, fieldRef, ngram);
+
+		return q;
+	}
+
+	private void populateSimplifiedQueue(final Queue<MapDocument> q,
+		final List<MapDocument> tempResults,
+		final Reporter context,
+		final String fieldRef,
+		final String ngram) {
+		WfConfig wf = dedupConf.getWf();
+		if (tempResults.size() < wf.getGroupMaxSize()) {
+			q.addAll(tempResults);
+		} else {
+			context
+				.incrementCounter(
+					wf.getEntityType(),
+					String.format("Skipped records for count(%s) >= %s", wf.getOrderField(), wf.getGroupMaxSize()),
+					tempResults.size());
+//            log.info("Skipped field: " + fieldRef + " - size: " + tempResults.size() + " - ngram: " + ngram);
+		}
+	}
+
+	private void process(final Queue<MapDocument> queue, final Reporter context, boolean useTree, boolean noMatch) {
+
+		while (!queue.isEmpty()) {
+
+			final MapDocument pivot = queue.remove();
+			final String idPivot = pivot.getIdentifier();
+
+			WfConfig wf = dedupConf.getWf();
+			final Field fieldsPivot = pivot.values(wf.getOrderField());
+			final String fieldPivot = (fieldsPivot == null) || fieldsPivot.isEmpty() ? "" : fieldsPivot.stringValue();
+
+			if (fieldPivot != null) {
+				int i = 0;
+				for (final MapDocument curr : queue) {
+					final String idCurr = curr.getIdentifier();
+
+					if (mustSkip(idCurr)) {
+
+						context.incrementCounter(wf.getEntityType(), "skip list", 1);
+
+						break;
+					}
+
+					if (i > wf.getSlidingWindowSize()) {
+						break;
+					}
+
+					final Field fieldsCurr = curr.values(wf.getOrderField());
+					final String fieldCurr = (fieldsCurr == null) || fieldsCurr.isEmpty() ? null
+						: fieldsCurr.stringValue();
+
+					if (!idCurr.equals(idPivot) && (fieldCurr != null)) {
+
+						// draws no match relations (test purpose)
+						if (noMatch) {
+							emitOutput(!new TreeProcessor(dedupConf).compare(pivot, curr), idPivot, idCurr, context);
+						} else {
+							// use the decision tree implementation or the "normal" implementation of the similarity
+							// score (valid only for publications)
+							if (useTree)
+								emitOutput(new TreeProcessor(dedupConf).compare(pivot, curr), idPivot, idCurr, context);
+							else
+								emitOutput(publicationCompare(pivot, curr, dedupConf), idPivot, idCurr, context);
+						}
+//                            if(new TreeProcessor(dedupConf).compare(pivot, curr) != publicationCompare(pivot, curr, dedupConf)) {
+//                                emitOutput(true, idPivot, idCurr, context);
+//                            }
+
+					}
+				}
+			}
+		}
+	}
+
+	protected static boolean compareInstanceType(MapDocument a, MapDocument b, DedupConfig conf) {
+		Map<String, String> params = new HashMap<>();
+		InstanceTypeMatch instanceTypeMatch = new InstanceTypeMatch(params);
+		double compare = instanceTypeMatch
+			.compare(a.getFieldMap().get("instance"), b.getFieldMap().get("instance"), conf);
+		return compare >= 1.0;
+	}
+
+	private boolean publicationCompare(MapDocument a, MapDocument b, DedupConfig config) {
+		// if the score gives 1, the publications are equivalent
+		Map<String, String> params = new HashMap<>();
+		params.put("jpath_value", "$.value");
+		params.put("jpath_classid", "$.qualifier.classid");
+		params.put("mode", "count");
+
+		double score = 0.0;
+
+		// levenstein title
+		LevensteinTitle levensteinTitle = new LevensteinTitle(params);
+		if (levensteinTitle.compare(a.getFieldMap().get("title"), b.getFieldMap().get("title"), config) >= 0.9) {
+			score += 0.2;
+		}
+
+		// pid
+		JsonListMatch jsonListMatch = new JsonListMatch(params);
+		if (jsonListMatch.compare(a.getFieldMap().get("pid"), b.getFieldMap().get("pid"), config) >= 1.0) {
+			score += 0.5;
+		}
+
+		// title version
+		TitleVersionMatch titleVersionMatch = new TitleVersionMatch(params);
+		double result1 = titleVersionMatch.compare(a.getFieldMap().get("title"), b.getFieldMap().get("title"), config);
+		if (result1 < 0 || result1 >= 1.0) {
+			score += 0.1;
+		}
+
+		// authors match
+		params.remove("mode");
+		AuthorsMatch authorsMatch = new AuthorsMatch(params);
+		double result2 = authorsMatch.compare(a.getFieldMap().get("authors"), b.getFieldMap().get("authors"), config);
+		if (result2 < 0 || result2 >= 0.6) {
+			score += 0.2;
+		}
+
+		return score >= 0.5;
+	}
+
+	private void emitOutput(final boolean result, final String idPivot, final String idCurr, final Reporter context) {
+
+		if (result) {
+			writeSimilarity(context, idPivot, idCurr);
+			context.incrementCounter(dedupConf.getWf().getEntityType(), "dedupSimilarity (x2)", 1);
+		} else {
+			context.incrementCounter(dedupConf.getWf().getEntityType(), "d < " + dedupConf.getWf().getThreshold(), 1);
+		}
+	}
+
+	private boolean mustSkip(final String idPivot) {
+		return dedupConf.getWf().getSkipList().contains(getNsPrefix(idPivot));
+	}
+
+	private String getNsPrefix(final String id) {
+		return StringUtils.substringBetween(id, "|", "::");
+	}
+
+	private void writeSimilarity(final Reporter context, final String from, final String to) {
+		final String type = dedupConf.getWf().getEntityType();
+
+		context.emit(type, from, to);
+	}
+}

dhp-pace-core/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/pace/util/Capitalise.java

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+
+package eu.dnetlib.pace.util;
+
+import org.apache.commons.lang3.text.WordUtils;
+
+import com.google.common.base.Function;
+
+public class Capitalise implements Function<String, String> {
+
+	private final char[] DELIM = {
+		' ', '-'
+	};
+
+	@Override
+	public String apply(final String s) {
+		return WordUtils.capitalize(s.toLowerCase(), DELIM);
+	}
+};

dhp-pace-core/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/pace/util/DotAbbreviations.java

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+
+package eu.dnetlib.pace.util;
+
+import com.google.common.base.Function;
+
+public class DotAbbreviations implements Function<String, String> {
+	@Override
+	public String apply(String s) {
+		return s.length() == 1 ? s + "." : s;
+	}
+};

dhp-pace-core/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/pace/util/MapDocumentUtil.java

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+
+package eu.dnetlib.pace.util;
+
+import java.math.BigDecimal;
+import java.util.*;
+import java.util.function.Predicate;
+import java.util.stream.Collectors;
+
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.core.JsonProcessingException;
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
+import com.jayway.jsonpath.Configuration;
+import com.jayway.jsonpath.JsonPath;
+import com.jayway.jsonpath.Option;
+
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.config.DedupConfig;
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.config.Type;
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.model.*;
+import net.minidev.json.JSONArray;
+
+public class MapDocumentUtil {
+
+	public static final String URL_REGEX = "^(http|https|ftp)\\://.*";
+	public static Predicate<String> urlFilter = s -> s.trim().matches(URL_REGEX);
+
+	public static MapDocument asMapDocumentWithJPath(DedupConfig conf, final String json) {
+		MapDocument m = new MapDocument();
+		m.setIdentifier(getJPathString(conf.getWf().getIdPath(), json));
+		Map<String, Field> stringField = new HashMap<>();
+		conf.getPace().getModel().forEach(fdef -> {
+			switch (fdef.getType()) {
+				case String:
+				case Int:
+					stringField
+						.put(
+							fdef.getName(), new FieldValueImpl(fdef.getType(), fdef.getName(),
+								truncateValue(getJPathString(fdef.getPath(), json), fdef.getLength())));
+					break;
+				case URL:
+					String uv = getJPathString(fdef.getPath(), json);
+					if (!urlFilter.test(uv))
+						uv = "";
+					stringField.put(fdef.getName(), new FieldValueImpl(fdef.getType(), fdef.getName(), uv));
+					break;
+				case List:
+				case JSON:
+					FieldListImpl fi = new FieldListImpl(fdef.getName(), fdef.getType());
+					truncateList(getJPathList(fdef.getPath(), json, fdef.getType()), fdef.getSize())
+						.stream()
+						.map(item -> new FieldValueImpl(Type.String, fdef.getName(), item))
+						.forEach(fi::add);
+					stringField.put(fdef.getName(), fi);
+					break;
+				case DoubleArray:
+					stringField
+						.put(
+							fdef.getName(),
+							new FieldValueImpl(Type.DoubleArray,
+								fdef.getName(),
+								getJPathArray(fdef.getPath(), json)));
+					break;
+				case StringConcat:
+					String[] jpaths = fdef.getPath().split("\\|\\|\\|");
+					stringField
+						.put(
+							fdef.getName(),
+							new FieldValueImpl(Type.String,
+								fdef.getName(),
+								truncateValue(
+									Arrays
+										.stream(jpaths)
+										.map(jpath -> getJPathString(jpath, json))
+										.collect(Collectors.joining(" ")),
+									fdef.getLength())));
+					break;
+			}
+		});
+		m.setFieldMap(stringField);
+		return m;
+	}
+
+	public static List<String> getJPathList(String path, String json, Type type) {
+		if (type == Type.List)
+			return JsonPath
+				.using(
+					Configuration
+						.defaultConfiguration()
+						.addOptions(Option.ALWAYS_RETURN_LIST, Option.SUPPRESS_EXCEPTIONS))
+				.parse(json)
+				.read(path);
+		Object jresult;
+		List<String> result = new ArrayList<>();
+		try {
+			jresult = JsonPath.read(json, path);
+		} catch (Throwable e) {
+			return result;
+		}
+		if (jresult instanceof JSONArray) {
+
+			((JSONArray) jresult).forEach(it -> {
+
+				try {
+					result.add(new ObjectMapper().writeValueAsString(it));
+				} catch (JsonProcessingException e) {
+
+				}
+			});
+			return result;
+		}
+
+		if (jresult instanceof LinkedHashMap) {
+			try {
+				result.add(new ObjectMapper().writeValueAsString(jresult));
+			} catch (JsonProcessingException e) {
+
+			}
+			return result;
+		}
+		if (jresult instanceof String) {
+			result.add((String) jresult);
+		}
+		return result;
+	}
+
+	public static String getJPathString(final String jsonPath, final String json) {
+		try {
+			Object o = JsonPath.read(json, jsonPath);
+			if (o instanceof String)
+				return (String) o;
+			if (o instanceof JSONArray && ((JSONArray) o).size() > 0)
+				return (String) ((JSONArray) o).get(0);
+			return "";
+		} catch (Exception e) {
+			return "";
+		}
+	}
+
+	public static double[] getJPathArray(final String jsonPath, final String json) {
+		try {
+			Object o = JsonPath.read(json, jsonPath);
+			if (o instanceof double[])
+				return (double[]) o;
+			if (o instanceof JSONArray) {
+				Object[] objects = ((JSONArray) o).toArray();
+				double[] array = new double[objects.length];
+				for (int i = 0; i < objects.length; i++) {
+					if (objects[i] instanceof BigDecimal)
+						array[i] = ((BigDecimal) objects[i]).doubleValue();
+					else
+						array[i] = (double) objects[i];
+				}
+				return array;
+			}
+			return new double[0];
+		} catch (Exception e) {
+			e.printStackTrace();
+			return new double[0];
+		}
+	}
+
+	public static String truncateValue(String value, int length) {
+		if (value == null)
+			return "";
+
+		if (length == -1 || length > value.length())
+			return value;
+
+		return value.substring(0, length);
+	}
+
+	public static List<String> truncateList(List<String> list, int size) {
+		if (size == -1 || size > list.size())
+			return list;
+
+		return list.subList(0, size);
+	}
+
+}

dhp-pace-core/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/pace/util/PaceException.java

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+
+package eu.dnetlib.pace.util;
+
+public class PaceException extends RuntimeException {
+
+	public PaceException(String s, Throwable e) {
+		super(s, e);
+	}
+
+	public PaceException(String s) {
+		super(s);
+	}
+
+}

dhp-pace-core/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/pace/util/PaceResolver.java

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+
+package eu.dnetlib.pace.util;
+
+import java.io.Serializable;
+import java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException;
+import java.util.Map;
+import java.util.stream.Collectors;
+
+import org.reflections.Reflections;
+
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.clustering.ClusteringClass;
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.clustering.ClusteringFunction;
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.tree.support.Comparator;
+import eu.dnetlib.pace.tree.support.ComparatorClass;
+
+public class PaceResolver implements Serializable {
+
+	public static final Reflections CLUSTERING_RESOLVER = new Reflections("eu.dnetlib.pace.clustering");
+	public static final Reflections COMPARATOR_RESOLVER = new Reflections("eu.dnetlib.pace.tree");
+
+	private final Map<String, Class<ClusteringFunction>> clusteringFunctions;
+	private final Map<String, Class<Comparator>> comparators;
+
+	public PaceResolver() {
+
+		this.clusteringFunctions = CLUSTERING_RESOLVER
+			.getTypesAnnotatedWith(ClusteringClass.class)
+			.stream()
+			.filter(ClusteringFunction.class::isAssignableFrom)
+			.collect(
+				Collectors
+					.toMap(
+						cl -> cl.getAnnotation(ClusteringClass.class).value(), cl -> (Class<ClusteringFunction>) cl));
+
+		this.comparators = COMPARATOR_RESOLVER
+			.getTypesAnnotatedWith(ComparatorClass.class)
+			.stream()
+			.filter(Comparator.class::isAssignableFrom)
+			.collect(
+				Collectors.toMap(cl -> cl.getAnnotation(ComparatorClass.class).value(), cl -> (Class<Comparator>) cl));
+	}
+
+	public ClusteringFunction getClusteringFunction(String name, Map<String, Integer> params) throws PaceException {
+		try {
+			return clusteringFunctions.get(name).getDeclaredConstructor(Map.class).newInstance(params);
+		} catch (InstantiationException | IllegalAccessException | InvocationTargetException
+			| NoSuchMethodException e) {
+			throw new PaceException(name + " not found ", e);
+		}
+	}
+
+	public Comparator getComparator(String name, Map<String, String> params) throws PaceException {
+		try {
+			return comparators.get(name).getDeclaredConstructor(Map.class).newInstance(params);
+		} catch (InstantiationException | IllegalAccessException | InvocationTargetException | NoSuchMethodException
+			| NullPointerException e) {
+			throw new PaceException(name + " not found ", e);
+		}
+	}
+
+}

dhp-pace-core/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/pace/util/Reporter.java

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+
+package eu.dnetlib.pace.util;
+
+import java.io.Serializable;
+
+public interface Reporter extends Serializable {
+
+	void incrementCounter(String counterGroup, String counterName, long delta);
+
+	void emit(String type, String from, String to);
+}