Fuzzy Matcher

A service matches texts with a list of user-defined strings according to a similarity measure based on edit distance. The service is designed to match very long list efficiently.

Demo

1) Define a list of patterns:

2) Enter matching text:

3) Select minimum similarity between pattern and text (Optional):

4) Define a normalizer (Optional):

API

Request

URL: /cgi-bin/fuzzy_matcher.cgi

Method: POST

Parameter	Required	Type	Description
version	no	integer	API version, default is 0, which is the latest version
pattern	yes	string	user defined pattern list
text	yes	string	matching text string
similarity	no	float	minimum similarity between text string and pattern string, range from 0.8 to 1.0, default value is 0.8
normalizer	no	string	normalizer definition, no normalizer is used if definition is empty