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Date: 2009-11-24T21:11:47Z
From: j daniel
Subject: merge on non-identical names
Greetings,
I need to conduct a merge on two databases containing information on
organizations, but the organization names are often non-identical and there
is no common unique identifier. Does anyone know a good way to calculate a
similarity measure on two names, or even better is there a natural language
matching function in an R package? I did some searches on this but must not
know the right keywords to search.
As an example, here are some possible non-identical names:
Oxfam, Oxfam USA
American Services, Americam Services - (just mis-spelled)
Global Alliance for Action, Global Alliance for the Environment - (a
non-match)
Any suggestions are welcome!
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