User Manual for py_stringmatching

This document shows the users how to install and use the package. To contribute to or further develop the package, see the project website, section “For Contributors and Developers”.

Contents

• What is New?
• Installation
  • Requirements
  • Platforms
  • Dependencies
  • C Compiler Required
  • Installing Using pip
  • Installing from Source Distribution
• Tutorial
  • 1. Selecting a Similarity Measure
  • 2. Selecting a Tokenizer Type
  • 3. Creating a Tokenizer Object and Using It to Tokenize the Input Strings
  • 4. Creating a Similarity Measure Object and Using It to Compute a Similarity Score
  • Handling a Large Number of String Pairs
  • Handling Missing Values
  • Adding Prefix and Suffix to the Input String for Qgram Tokenizers
  • Class Hierarchy for Tokenizers and Similarity Measures
  • References
• Tokenizers
  • Alphabetic Tokenizer
  • Alphanumeric Tokenizer
  • Delimiter Tokenizer
  • Qgram Tokenizer
  • Whitespace Tokenizer
• Similarity Measures
  • Affine Gap
  • Bag Distance
  • Cosine
  • Dice
  • Editex
  • Generalized Jaccard
  • Hamming Distance
  • Jaccard
  • Jaro
  • Jaro Winkler
  • Levenshtein
  • Monge Elkan
  • Needleman Wunsch
  • Overlap Coefficient
  • Partial Ratio
  • Partial Token Sort
  • Ratio
  • Smith Waterman
  • Soft TF/IDF
  • Soundex
  • TF/IDF
  • Token Sort
  • Tversky Index
• Runtime Benchmark
  • Running the Benchmark
  • Interpreting the Results

Indices and tables

• Index
• Module Index
• Search Page