Fuzzy string comparison

Wed Dec 27 19:13:13 EST 2006

At Wednesday 27/12/2006 18:59, John Machin wrote:

> > Thanks, all. Yes, Levenshtein seems to be the magic word I was looking
> > for.  (It's blazingly fast, too.)

In case you need something more, this article is a good starting point:
Record Linkage: A Machine Learning Approach, A Toolbox, and A Digital 
Government Web Service (2003)
Mohamed G. Elfeky, Vassilios S. Verykios, Ahmed K. Elmagarmid, Thanaa 
M. Ghanem, Ahmed R. Huwait.
http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/elfeky03record.html

-- 
Gabriel Genellina
Softlab SRL 

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