Top "Levenshtein-distance" questions

A metric for measuring the amount of difference between two sequences.

Getting the closest string match

I need a way to compare multiple strings to a test string and return the string that closely resembles it: …

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Levenshtein distance in T-SQL

I am interested in algorithm in T-SQL calculating Levenshtein distance.

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High performance fuzzy string comparison in Python, use Levenshtein or difflib

I am doing clinical message normalization (spell check) in which I check each given word against 900,000 word medical dictionary. I …

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Difference between Jaro-Winkler and Levenshtein distance?

I have a use case where I need to do fuzzy matching of millions of records from multiple files. I …

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Levenshtein Distance in VBA

I have excel sheet with data which I want to get Levenshtein Distance between them. I already tried to export …

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What algorithm gives suggestions in a spell checker?

What algorithm is typically used when implementing a spell checker that is accompanied with word suggestions? At first I thought …

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String similarity metrics in Python

I want to find string similarity between two strings. This page has examples of some of them. Python has an …

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Implementation of Levenshtein distance for mysql/fuzzy search?

I would like to be able to search a table as follows for smith as get everything that it within 1 …

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How to calculate distance similarity measure of given 2 strings?

I need to calculate the similarity between 2 strings. So what exactly do I mean? Let me explain with an example: …

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How to install python-levenshtein on Windows?

After searching for days I'm about ready to give up finding precompiled binaries for Python 2.7 (Windows 64-bit) of the Python …

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