Levenshtein distance

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In information theory, linguistics, and computer science, the Levenshtein distance is a string metric for measuring the difference between two sequences. Informally, the Levenshtein distance between two words is the minimum number of single-character edits (insertions, deletions or substitutions) required to change one word into the other. It is named after the Soviet mathematician Vladimir Levenshtein, who considered this distance in 1965.Levenshtein distance may also be referred to as edit distance, although that term may also denote a larger family of distance metrics known collectively as edit distance.: 32 It is closely related to pairwise string alignments.

Levenshtein distance - Wikipedia Jump to content From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Computer science metric for string similarity Levenshtein distance Edit distance matrix for two words using cost of substitution as 1 and cost of deletion or insertion as 0.5 Class measuring the difference between two sequences In information theory , linguistics , and computer science , the Levenshtein distance is a string metric for measuring the difference between two sequences. The Levenshtein distance between two words is the minimum number of single-character edits (insertions, deletions or substitutio

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