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luozhouyang / python-string-similarity

A library implementing different string similarity and distance measures using Python.
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Needing Advice: Best algo(s) for distance based on "proportion of shared substrings" #35

Open davidmcnabnz opened 1 year ago

davidmcnabnz commented 1 year ago

Hi there, I'm just getting started with string similarity processing. In my application, I need to compare short-ish strings of length 25-300 characters, and I need the 'distance between any two' metric to reward things like:

  1. Proportion of each string which is shared substrings, and
  2. Sizes of shared substrings, especially relative to the lengths of the strings being compared

Any suggestions, among the wealth of algorithms and modes supported in this package?

Cheers David