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From: Dawid Weiss <dawid.weiss@cs.put.poznan.pl>
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2012 21:06:40 +0100
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Subject: Re: Edit Distance
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This isn't of immediate relevance to you perhaps, but my friend once
did a comparison of string edit distance metrics for name matching
correction.

http://www.mendeley.com/research/comparison-string-distance-metrics-namematching-tasks-3/

Dawid

On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 4:44 PM, Ahmed Abdeen Hamed
<ahmed.elmasri@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Does Mahout have support for Edit Distance between two Strings? I looked on
> the web but can't find anything. Please let me know if it does.
>
> Thanks very much,
>
> -Ahmed