Top "Levenshtein-distance" questions

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

Hamming Distance vs. Levenshtein Distance

For the problem I'm working on, finding distances between two sequences to determine their similarity, sequence order is very important. …

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Text similarity algorithm

I have two subtitles files. I need a function that tells whether they represent the same text, or the similar …

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Python: String clustering with scikit-learn's dbscan, using Levenshtein distance as metric:

I have been trying to cluster multiple datasets of URLs (around 1 million each), to find the original and the typos …

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How to configure Solr to use Levenshtein approximate string matching?

Does Apaches Solr search engine provide approximate string matches, e.g. via Levenshtein algorithm? I'm looking for a way to …

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Fuzzy screenshot comparison with Selenium

I'm using Selenium to automate webpage functional testing. It's important for us to do a pixel-by-pixel comparison when we roll …

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How do I convert between a measure of similarity and a measure of difference (distance)?

Is there a general way to convert between a measure of similarity and a measure of distance? Consider a similarity …

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calculating Levenshtein Distance using word lists

first i want to say that i am a newbie in python. I trying to calculate the Levenshtein Distance for …

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Levenshtein distance: how to better handle words swapping positions?

I've had some success comparing strings using the PHP levenshtein function. However, for two strings which contain substrings that have …

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String similarity -> Levenshtein distance

I'm using the Levenshtein algorithm to find the similarity between two strings. This is a very important part of the …

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Damerau–Levenshtein distance (Edit Distance with Transposition) c implementation

I implemented the Damerau–Levenshtein distance in c++ but it does not give correct o/p for the input (pantera,…

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