Overview
jellyfish is a library for approximate & phonetic matching of strings.
Source: https://github.com/jamesturk/jellyfish
Documentation: https://jamesturk.github.io/jellyfish/
Issues: https://github.com/jamesturk/jellyfish/issues
Included Algorithms
String comparison:
- Levenshtein Distance
- Damerau-Levenshtein Distance
- Jaro Distance
- Jaro-Winkler Distance
- Match Rating Approach Comparison
- Hamming Distance
Phonetic encoding:
- American Soundex
- Metaphone
- NYSIIS (New York State Identification and Intelligence System)
- Match Rating Codex
Example Usage
>>>
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2
>>>
0.89629629629629637
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1
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