Re: Join based upon LIKE

[Johan De Meersman]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jerry Schwartz" <jerry@stripped>
> 
> I'm not sure that I could easily build a dictionary of non-junk
> words, since

The traditional way is to build a database of junk words. The list tends to be shorter :-)

Think and/or/it/the/with/like/...

Percentages of mutual and non-mutual words between two titles should be a reasonable
indicator of likeness. You could conceivably even assign value to individual words, so
"polypropylbutanate" is more useful than "synergy" for comparison purposes.

All very theoretical, though, I haven't actually done much of it to this level. My
experience in data mangling is limited to mostly should-be-fixed-format data like sports
results.


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