RE: Fuzzy string matching
RE: Fuzzy string matching
- Subject: RE: Fuzzy string matching
- From: Shawn Bakhtiar <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2011 11:41:21 -0400
- Importance: Normal
Just out of curiosity...
Why not use extended regular expressions? Or am I missing something?
> From: email@hidden
> Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2011 09:33:44 -0400
> To: email@hidden
> CC: email@hidden
> Subject: Re: Fuzzy string matching
>
> Thanks for the reply, I've now found this:
>
> http://www.merriampark.com/ldobjc.htm
>
> Will try this out and see how it goes. It's close to something I
> already had which I didn't think worked that great, but will try
> anyway.
>
> Eric
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 9:19 AM, Ulf Dunkel <email@hidden> wrote:
> > Hi Eric.
> >
> >> I have an application (iOS) that is doing speech to text. The
> >> resulting string I'd like to fuzzy match against the user's onboard
> >> music library, and play a song, album, genre, etc. as appropriate. I
> >> am looking for a really good fuzzy string matching engine. I found
> >> this: http://www.locayta.com/, not sure it's something I could use or
> >> not. Also I found this code (but it's not quote accurate enough for
> >> reliable results):
> >>
> >> Any better ideas for a better fuzzy string match?
> >
> > For me, the Levenshtein distance method has always worked fine. You can even
> > offer an UI element (I'd suggest a slider) to let the user define a looser
> > or tighter distance for better results.
> >
> > ---Ulf Dunkel
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