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Michael P. Reilly arcege@shore.net
Tue, 10 Oct 2000 07:35:32 -0400 (EDT)


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> > From: Daniel Yoo [SMTP:dyoo@hkn.eecs.berkeley.edu]
> > I was curious; is there a python module that, given a list of words and a
> > misspelled word, returns back the "most similar" word?  I do remember
> > reading about an algorithm that would give the "distance" between two
> > words, but I haven't found it in Parnassus.
>  
> Daniel,
> The algorithm that you want is called 'soundex'. I think that I remember a
> soundex module at Parnassus, but I haven't tried it.

The soundex module is included in the Python 1.5.2 and Python 1.6
distributions (I didn't check 2.0b2).

  -Arcege

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