jaro-winkler

Jaro-Winkler Distance Algorithm in .NET

Is there any LGPL or commercial-friendly licensed implementation of Jaro-Winkler distance in .NET? ...

Python performance improvement request for winkler

I'm a python n00b and I'd like some suggestions on how to improve the algorithm to improve the performance of this method to compute the Jaro-Winkler distance of two names. def winklerCompareP(str1, str2): """Return approximate string comparator measure (between 0.0 and 1.0) USAGE: score = winkler(str1, str2) ARGUMENTS: str1 The ...

Doing order by using the Jaro-Winkler distance algorithm?

I am wondering how would I be able to run a SQLite order by in this manner select * from contacts order by jarowinkler(contacts.name,'john smith'); I know Android has a bottleneck with user defined functions, do I have an alternative? ...

Optimizing Jaro-Winkler algorithm

I have this code for Jaro-Winkler algorithm taken from this website. I need to run 150,000 times to get distance between differences. It takes a long time, as I run on an Android mobile device. Can it be optimized more? public class Jaro { /** * gets the similarity of the two strings using Jaro distance. * * @param s...