JaroWinkler

The Jaro–Winkler distance metric is designed and best suited for short strings such as person names, and to detect typos; it is (roughly) a variation of Damerau-Levenshtein, where the substitution of 2 close characters is considered less important than the substitution of 2 characters that a far from each other.

Jaro-Winkler was developed in the area of record linkage (duplicate detection) (Winkler, 1990). It returns a value in the interval 0.0, 1.0.

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