Naturallanguageprocessing, String Matching, R, Jaro Winkler, Levenshtein Distance.
= jarowinkler(string_a, string_b) Now let’s test this out on the problem we had with Hollister Building vs. Hollister Hall and Sullivan Building: library(RecordLinkage) # "Hollister Building" vs "Hollister Hall" jarowinkler("Hollister Building", "Hollister Hall") ## 0.8793651 # "Hollister Building"