Lucene helps a lot ther, this is nice inverted index lib :)
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> From: Andy DePue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: java-user@lucene.apache.org
> Sent: Wednesday, 16 April, 2008 7:10:42 PM
> Subject: Re: Using Lucene to find duplicate/similar names
>
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Thanks for the pointer. I found the thread, and there is certainly some
interesting information there. I'd like to stick to what Lucene has
available today, mainly because I lack the time to implement anything
more than that. I originally thought Levenshtein, but then realized
that Lucene wo
I believe there were some posts on this about a year ago. Try
searching in the archives for duplicate names, as well as "record
linkage" or any other various synonyms that you can think of. The
short answer is Lucene is reasonable to attempt this with, but you may
need some help. The lon
I'm new to Lucene, and would like to use it to find duplicate (or
similar) names in a contact list. Is Lucene a good fit?
We have a form where a user enters a company or person's name, and we
want the system to warn them if there is already a company or person
entered with the same or similar n
