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I'm talking about this kind of thing (fuzzy string matching) at the Central PA Open Source Conference tomorrow:

  http://www.cposc.org/

Also have slides (keynote, ppt, pdf, and example code) here:

  http://github.com/kyleburton/fuzzy-string

Interesting and useful algorithms.

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Thanks! Somehow I missed Text::Brew. Looks interesting.

I've found that scoring is a rather slow operation (relatively speaking), and so at the very least people should consider using memoization when they score or some other technique to reduce frequent scoring of identical terms.

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