Thursday 10 February 2011

Approximate string matching algorithm (fuzzy search)

This is a great algorithm to find similarity coefficient of the two words.
Author is Viterbi or Bellman.I didn't find anything about it in the Internet.

For example exists dictionary: mother, uncle, cat, dog. And you typed smth like
"maaather", as the result will be "maaather" -> mother.
This algorithm possible to use in spell checking,sound recognition etc.