Thank you all for your responses! Dawid: I actually ended up using TFIDF distance, which sounds similar to your friend's work. The Edit Distance was going to compare characters to characters vs token. I needed the latter which why I ended up using the TFIDF distance instead. I intended to share what I did but you beat me to it. I also ended up using LingPipe APIs which is a licensed NLP framework, which supports the TFIDF distance among others.
Thanks very much for the lovely discussion! -Ahmed On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 4:06 PM, Dawid Weiss <dawid.we...@cs.put.poznan.pl>wrote: > This isn't of immediate relevance to you perhaps, but my friend once > did a comparison of string edit distance metrics for name matching > correction. > > > http://www.mendeley.com/research/comparison-string-distance-metrics-namematching-tasks-3/ > > Dawid > > On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 4:44 PM, Ahmed Abdeen Hamed > <ahmed.elma...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Does Mahout have support for Edit Distance between two Strings? I looked > on > > the web but can't find anything. Please let me know if it does. > > > > Thanks very much, > > > > -Ahmed >
