Document Similarity Measures

String Matching

• Edit Distance
• Levenstein
• Smith-Waterman
• Affine

• Alignment
• Jaro-Winkler
• Soft-TFIDF
• Monge-Elkan

• Phonetic
• Soundex
• Translation

Distance Matching

• Euclidean
• Manhattan
• Minkowski

• Text Analytics
• Jaccard
• TFIDF
• Cosine Similarity

Relational Matching

• Set Based
• Dice
• Tanimoto (Jaccard)
• Common Neighbors
• Adar Weighted

• Aggregates
• Average values
• Max/Min values
• Medians
• Frequency (Mode)

Other Matching

• Numeric distance
• Boolean equality
• Fuzzy matching
• Domain specific

• Gazettes
• Lexical matching
• Named Entities (NER)