Looking for library to estimate likeness of two strings

[Gabriel Genellina]

En Thu, 07 Feb 2008 13:25:14 -0200, agenkin at gmail.com <agenkin at gmail.com>  
escribió:

> Many thanks for the excellent leads.  I've also found several
> functions to find phonetic similarity between English names: the
> mentioned above soundex, then, also, one called metaphone.  I'm now
> thinking of the best way to use some combination of these functions.

You may be interested in this article which discusses some techniques used  
to match similar records:

Record Linkage: A Machine Learning Approach, A Toolbox, and A Digital
Government Web Service (2003)
Mohamed G. Elfeky, Vassilios S. Verykios, Ahmed K. Elmagarmid, Thanaa
M. Ghanem, Ahmed R. Huwait.
http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/elfeky03record.html


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Gabriel Genellina