Questions tagged [name-matching]
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What are some algorithms tailored specifically towards *human* name-matching?
I wanted to know if there are any algorithms or libraries that specifically address the many issues of human name-matching. I ran across ones that fuzzy string-matching algorithms are built on, and I found that they tend to yield a lot of…
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Python alternate function to fuzz.token_set_ratio to reduce execution time
I am working on name matching problem where I have names of customers which need to be compared with 2.5 Million records of existing customers saved in csv file. Below is the code which I tried and its taking 5-12 minutes for single name matching.…
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Linux or unix find: shortcut for matching partial name
What I usually type:
find . -name "*pattern*"
what I want to type (for example. mnemonic = "all"):
afind . -name "pattern"
or
find . -aname "pattern"
I was just thinking there could be a shortcut like in the style of
find . -iname "blah"
or
rgrep…
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How to properly match file names in subdirectories?
I am currently going through the book Real World Haskell and one exercise from this book asks the reader to implement file name matching with the use of **, which is the same as *, but also looks in subdirectories all the way down in the file…
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Combining table, web service data in Grails
I'm trying to figure out the best approach to display combined tables based on matching logic and input search criteria.
Here is the situation:
We have a table of customers stored locally. The fields of interest are ssn, first name, last name and…
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R Function to Replace SPEDIS in SAS
SPEDIS Function in SAS calculates cost as follows (Example):
Example
data words;
input Operation $ Query $ Keyword $;
Distance = spedis(query,keyword);
Cost = distance * length(query);
datalines;
match fuzzy fuzzy
singlet fuzy …
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