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There are all these edit distances that are useful, but when you want to do fuzzy matching, you usually want to do it against a database, and while fuzzy matchi
by Eridrus 8y ago
There are all these edit distances that are useful, but when you want to do fuzzy matching, you usually want to do it against a database, and while fuzzy matching is a great place to start, I think the more general way to think about this is document retrieval where you can just know that CA and California are two names for the same entity.
- jgalt212 8y agoYes, I agree that a DB should be the first pass, but what do you do when you encounter a never before seen token? e.g. your September:SEP mapping will fail when encountering the token Sept, but Levenshtein will help you get this one right.