Rank by String similarity

Description

Ranks objects based on how similar a selected string attribute value is to a given string.

Input

• SOURCE [OBJ]: the list of objects to rank

Output

• CLOSE [OBJ]: ranked objects, closest to the given value on top

• FAR [OBJ]: ranked objects, furthest from the given value on top

Parameters

• Similarity function:

  • overlap: based on amount of exact overlap

  • word overlap: based on amount of overlapping words.

  • levenshtein: based on the minimum number of single-character edits.

  • jaro-winkler: a variant of levenshtein which gives more favourable ratings to strings that match from the beginning for a set prefix.

• Case-sensitive: if set to false, upper/lower case is ignored