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intuit / fuzzy-matcher

A Java library to determine probability of objects being similar.
Apache License 2.0
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Language Supported #51

Closed VikasSonu10 closed 3 years ago

VikasSonu10 commented 3 years ago

Do we have support for Chinese language (character) fuzzy match in this product?

Faster response is appreciated.

manishobhatia commented 3 years ago

Hi, Thanks for taking interest in this library

This library used Apache Soundex internally for matching names, addresses and other nouns which can have spelling or phonetic difference when captured with text. Unfortunately we do not see Soundex extending it support to languages other than english.

Other than that, the algorithm used here as such is independent of the language.

If there is enough interest in extending this to other languages, we are open to contribution from the community

Thanks, Manish