• mathematics and computer science, a string metric (also known as a string similarity metric or string distance function) is a metric that measures distance ("inverse...
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  • theory, linguistics, and computer science, the Levenshtein distance is a string metric for measuring the difference between two sequences. The Levenshtein...
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  • computational linguistics and computer science, edit distance is a string metric, i.e. a way of quantifying how dissimilar two strings (e.g., words)...
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    advances in approximate string matching based on an edit distance threshold. StringMetric project a Scala library of string metrics and phonetic algorithms...
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    characters that need to be changed to get from one string to another. Since they are very general, metric spaces are a tool used in many different branches...
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  • (named after Frederick J. Damerau and Vladimir I. Levenshtein) is a string metric for measuring the edit distance between two sequences. Informally, the...
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  • Jaro–Winkler distance (category String metrics)
    Jaro–Winkler similarity is a string metric measuring an edit distance between two sequences. It is a variant of the Jaro distance metric (1989, Matthew A. Jaro)...
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    strings String metric — notions of similarity between strings "Introduction To Java – MFC 158 G". Archived from the original on 2016-03-03. String literals...
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    In a more general context, the Hamming distance is one of several string metrics for measuring the edit distance between two sequences. It is named after...
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  • Sørensen–Dice coefficient (category String metrics)
    same outcome over binary vectors and also gives a more general similarity metric over vectors in general terms. For sets X and Y of keywords used in information...
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