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  • July 31, 2012 at 8:25 am

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    Abu Dina (7/31/2012)

    Thanks Chris.

    Just to confirm. Is the FuzzyMatch_iTVF2k5 is a full implementation of http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/75996/bm_sigmod03.pdf ?

    No - it's the closest online reference I could find at the time. The iTVF uses the token-matching method which is fairly well understood and quite widely used but folks appear reluctant to publish anything about it - or at least they did around 7 years ago when I first wrote this.

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