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From: chung@aiai.uucp (Paul Chung)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Fuzzy matching
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Date: 18 Feb 91 17:09:08 GMT
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I am interested in the idea of fuzzy matching in the database context.
Given a query, in addition to the system returning the exact matches,
I would like it to report near misses as well. Each near miss will be
assigned a number representing the goodness of fit. Has much work been
done in this area?

I would be most grateful if you could point me to any relevant papers or
systems. I am already familiar with the ideas of fuzzy set theory and
fuzzy logic.

Thanks in advance.

Paul Chung

Paul Chung,                        JANET: P.Chung@uk.ac.ed
AI Applications Institute,         ARPA:  P.Chung%uk.ac.ed@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk
University of Edinburgh.           UUCP:  ...!ukc!ed.ac.uk!P.Chung