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Simon Brunning SBrunning@trisystems.co.uk
Tue, 10 Oct 2000 08:35:14 +0100


> From:	Daniel Yoo [SMTP:dyoo@hkn.eecs.berkeley.edu]
> I was curious; is there a python module that, given a list of words and a
> misspelled word, returns back the "most similar" word?  I do remember
> reading about an algorithm that would give the "distance" between two
> words, but I haven't found it in Parnassus.
 
Daniel,
The algorithm that you want is called 'soundex'. I think that I remember a
soundex module at Parnassus, but I haven't tried it.

Cheers,
Simon Brunning
TriSystems Ltd.
sbrunning@trisystems.co.uk





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