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jellyfish
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=========
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Jellyfish is a python library for doing approximate and phonetic matching of strings.
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jellyfish is a project of Sunlight Labs (c) 2010.
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All code is released under a BSD-style license, see LICENSE for details.
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Written by Michael Stephens <mstephens@sunlightfoundation.com> and James Turk
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<jturk@sunlightfoundation.com>.
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Source is available at http://github.com/sunlightlabs/jellyfish.
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Included Algorithms
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===================
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String comparison:
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* Levenshtein Distance
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* Damerau-Levenshtein Distance
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* Jaro Distance
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* Jaro-Winkler Distance
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* Match Rating Approach Comparison
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* Hamming Distance
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Phonetic encoding:
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* American Soundex
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* Metaphone
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* NYSIIS (New York State Identification and Intelligence System)
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* Match Rating Codex
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Example Usage
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=============
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>>> import jellyfish
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>>> jellyfish.levenshtein_distance('jellyfish', 'smellyfish')
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2
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>>> jellyfish.jaro_distance('jellyfish', 'smellyfish')
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0.89629629629629637
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>>> jellyfish.damerau_levenshtein_distance('jellyfish', 'jellyfihs')
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1
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>>> jellyfish.metaphone('Jellyfish')
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'JLFX'
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>>> jellyfish.soundex('Jellyfish')
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'J412'
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>>> jellyfish.nysiis('Jellyfish')
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'JALYF'
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>>> jellyfish.match_rating_codex('Jellyfish')
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'JLLFSH'
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