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ArticlePeerJ. Computer science2021

Soft Bigram distance for names matching.

Mohammed Hadwan, Mohammed A Al-Hagery, Maher Al-Sanabani, Salah Al-Hagree

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Mohammed HadwanDepartment of Information Technology, College of Computer, Qassim University, Buraydah, Saudi Arabia.
Mohammed A Al-HageryDepartment of Computer Science, College of Computer, Qassim University, Buraydah, Saudi Arabia.
Maher Al-SanabaniFaculty of Computer Science and Information Systems, Thamar University, Thamar, Yemen.
Salah Al-HagreeDepartment of Computer Sciences & Information Technology, IBB University, IBB, Yemen.

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Abstract

backgroundBi-gram distance (BI-DIST) is a recent approach to measure the distance between two strings that have an important role in a wide range of applications in various areas. The importance of BI-DIST is due to its representational and computational efficiency, which has led to extensive research to further enhance its efficiency. However, developing an algorithm that can measure the distance of strings accurately and efficiently has posed a major challenge to many developers. Consequently, this research aims to design an algorithm that can match the names accurately. BI-DIST distance is considered the best orthographic measure for names identification; nevertheless, it lacks a distance scale between the name bigrams.

methodsIn this research, the Soft Bigram Distance (Soft-Bidist) measure is proposed. It is an extension of BI-DIST by softening the scale of comparison among the name Bigrams for improving the name matching. Different datasets are used to demonstrate the efficiency of the proposed method.

resultsThe results show that Soft-Bidist outperforms the compared algorithms using different name matching datasets.

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Approximate string matchingBigramCharacter n-gramName matching

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PMID33981836
PMCPMC8080420

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