README.md

Minimum Edit Distance in Cython

This provides String Distance functions in Cython.

Edit Based

With these metrics smaller is better.

• levenshtein (1 for insert, 1 for delete, and 1 for substitution)
• levenshtein_no_sub (1 for insert, 1 for delete, 2 for substitution)
• brew (0.1 for insert, 15 for delete, and 1 for substitution)
• dameran_levenshtein (1 for insert, 1 for delete, 1 for substitution, 1 for transposition)

Token Based

• cosine_distance
• binary_cosine_distance
• jaccard_distance

Sequence Based

With these metrics Larger is better.

• longest_common_subsequence
• longest_common_substring
• Ratcliff-Obershelft