Top "Levenshtein-distance" questions

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

Text clustering with Levenshtein distances

I have a set (2k - 4k) of small strings (3-6 characters) and I want to cluster them. Since I …

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Sort an array by the "Levenshtein Distance" with best performance in Javascript

So I have a random javascript array of names... [@larry,@nicholas,@notch] etc. They all start with the @ symbol. I'd …

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How python-Levenshtein.ratio is computed

According to the python-Levenshtein.ratio source: https://github.com/miohtama/python-Levenshtein/blob/master/Levenshtein.c#L722 it's computed as (lensum …

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Where can the documentation for python-Levenshtein be found online?

I've found a great python library implementing Levenshtein functions (distance, ratio, etc.) at http://code.google.com/p/pylevenshtein/ but …

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Compare similarity algorithms

I want to use string similarity functions to find corrupted data in my database. I came upon several of them: …

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Percentage rank of matches using Levenshtein Distance matching

I am trying to match a single search term against a dictionary of possible matches using a Levenshtein distance algorithm. …

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Best machine learning technique for matching product strings

Here's a puzzle... I have two databases of the same 50000+ electronic products and I want to match products in one …

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Implementing a simple Trie for efficient Levenshtein Distance calculation - Java

UPDATE 3 Done. Below is the code that finally passed all of my tests. Again, this is modeled after Murilo Vasconcelo's …

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Is it possible to do a Levenshtein distance in Excel without having to resort to Macros?

Let me explain. I have to do some fuzzy matching for a company, so ATM I use a levenshtein distance …

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Fast Levenshtein distance in R?

Is there a package that contains Levenshtein distance counting function which is implemented as a C or Fortran code? I …

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