Levenshtein Distance
Levenshtein distance, also called edit distance, measures the minimum number of single-character edits (insertions, deletions, substitutions) needed to transform one string into another. Introduced by Vladimir Levenshtein in 1966, this metric is a true metric (satisfying all distance properties) and is fundamental in computational linguistics, spell checking, DNA sequence comparison, and record linkage. It ranges from 0 (identical strings) to the length of the longer string.
Source record
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- Levenshtein, V. I. (1966). Binary codes capable of correcting deletions, insertions, and reversals. Soviet Physics Doklady, 10, 707-710. · URL
- Damerau, F. J. (1964). A technique for computer detection and correction of spelling errors. Communications of the ACM, 7(3), 171-176. · DOI 10.1145/363958.363994
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