moov-io / watchman

AML/CTF/KYC/OFAC Search of global watchlist and sanctions
https://moov-io.github.io/watchman/
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Proposal: Improve Jaro-Winkler #469

Closed adamdecaf closed 10 months ago

adamdecaf commented 1 year ago

From the following paper implement the improvements under a new algorithm for testing.

On the Efficient Execution of Bounded Jaro-Winkler Distances

Source: https://www.semantic-web-journal.net/system/files/swj1128.pdf

On the Efficient Execution of Bounded Jaro-Winkler Distances.pdf

tstkenny commented 11 months ago

Is there any progress please? The current searching mechanism returns too many false matches..

adamdecaf commented 10 months ago

Some general search improvements landed in https://github.com/moov-io/watchman/pull/511 and https://github.com/moov-io/watchman/pull/512

adamdecaf commented 10 months ago

Improvements released in v0.25.0 - if anyone runs into more issues please file an issue or comment here.