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Careful implementation of Jaro and Jaro-Winkler text difference algorithms
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update broken link to algorithm's paper #1

Closed odeke-em closed 7 years ago

odeke-em commented 7 years ago

Thanks for the reference to the package via the golang-codereviews group.

I was just reading through the code and tried to look at the URL for the paper but it 404'd. Visting http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~pradeepr/papers/ijcai03.pdf gives

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I visited https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~pradeepr/PR_publications.html and it seems like all the papers under "Information Integration" (the section that the Jaro-Winkler paper is listed), are broken.

By a Google Search I found http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~wcohen/postscript/ijcai-ws-2003.pdf which has the same title as the originally linked document. Am wondering if we should change to the available URL or just upload the paper to Google Drive and have a permanent link.

MichaelTJones commented 7 years ago

Great! Change done. I thought to follow the paper. That way any potential update will be captured.

On Sun, Jan 22, 2017 at 9:33 PM, Emmanuel T Odeke notifications@github.com wrote:

Thanks for the reference to the package via the golang-codereviews group.

I was just reading through the code and tried to look at the URL for the paper but it 404'd. Visting http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~pradeepr/papers/ijcai03.pdf gives [image: screen shot 2017-01-22 at 7 29 23 pm] https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/4898263/22189330/260fc904-e0d9-11e6-9f21-ff8ed281230a.png

I visited https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~pradeepr/PR_publications.html and it seems like all the papers under "Information Integration" (the section that the Jaro-Winkler paper is listed), are broken.

By a Google Search I found http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~wcohen/ postscript/ijcai-ws-2003.pdf which has the same title as the originally linked document. Am wondering if we should change to the available URL or just upload the paper to Google Drive and have a permanent link.

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odeke-em commented 7 years ago

Awesome, thank you. For reference, you made the change with https://github.com/MichaelTJones/distance/commit/dc55aa4d8e3b881e95378ffda915b57dbff0ada2