Design a data structure that takes in an array of strings and efficiently computes the shortest distance between any two different strings in the array.

Implement the WordDistance class:

• WordDistance(String[] words_dict): Initializes the object with an array of strings.

• int shortest(String word1, String word2): Returns the shortest distance between word1 and word2 in the array of strings.

Constraints:

• $1 \leq$ words_dict.length $\leq10^3$

• $1 \leq$ words_dict[i].length $\leq 10$

• words_dict[i] consists of lowercase English letters

• word1 and word2 are in words_dict

• word1 != word2

• At most, $1000$ calls will be made to the shortest

The algorithm uses a custom data structure to efficiently calculate the shortest distance between words in an array. It starts by creating a dictionary that records the positions of each word in the input array, allowing for quick retrieval of word ...