Are you talking about matching sections of text (copyright/plagerism issues)
Rough similarity (similar size, number of words) Similar content groupings (word count, number of matches) Whole phrase matching On 3/5/07, Ben Doom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Similar" is a rather vague description. Are you looking for overlap? > Length? Number of characters in the same location in each string? > Number of similar characters? > > Soundex is a good start if what your are looking for is similarity in a > sounds-like or spell-check sense, but isn't very helpful for UUIDs. > > --Ben Doom > > Chris Long wrote: > > I'm looking for an algorithm that will take two pieces of text as input and > > return some comparison of those texts, and how similar they are to one > > another. Ideally I would like it to return a number which would indicate > > the level of similarity, but I c > > an probably work with just about anything. > > > > Are there any good algorithms out there for doing this? Any help would be > > much appreciated. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Upgrade to Adobe ColdFusion MX7 Experience Flex 2 & MX7 integration & create powerful cross-platform RIAs http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/ Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:271636 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
