ajchemist/clj-fuzzy

A handy collection of algorithms dealing with fuzzy strings and phonetics.

clj-fuzzy

clj-fuzzy is a native Clojure library providing a collection of famous algorithms dealing with fuzzy strings and phonetics.

It can be used in Clojure, ClojureScript, client-side JavaScript and Node.js.

Full documentation

The full documentation for this library is available there.

Available algorithms

Metrics

• Sorensen / Dice coefficient
• Levenshtein distance
• Hamming distance
• Jaccard / Tanimoto distance
• Jaro-Winkler distance
• MRA comparison
• Tversky index

Stemmers

• Lancaster stemmer (en)
• Lovins stemmer (en)
• Porter stemmer (en)
• Schinke stemmer (latin)

Phonetics

• Metaphone
• Double Metaphone
• Soundex
• NYSIIS (original & refined)
• Caverphone (original & revisited)
• Cologne Phonetic
• MRA codex

Contribution

Please feel free to contribute by forking this repo. Just be sure to add relevant unit tests and pass them all before submitting any code.

License

MIT