FUZZY STRING MATCHING
- FuzzyMatch.apply is a method for comparing 2 names, that uses Levenshtein algorithm.
- The Levenshtein algorithm (also called Edit-Distance) calculates the
- least number of edit operations that are necessary to modify one string to obtain another string.
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- Method FuzzyMatch.apply returns 0 to 1 correlation between 2 names.
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- Names, that are used for fuzzy matching previously are:
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- Transliterated
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- Alphabetically sorted
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- Converted to lowercase and trimmed for extra whitespaces
