Jaro-Winkler is a fast and effective name matching algorithm. For more info see "A Comparison of String Distance Metrics for Name-Matching Tasks" http://www.isi.edu/info-agents/workshops/ijcai03/papers/Cohen-p.pdf or the Wikipedia article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaro%E2%80%93Winkler_distance
29 people like thisPosted: 13 years ago by Rick Minerich