| has gloss | eng: The Jaro-Winkler distance (Winkler, 1999) is a measure of similarity between two strings. It is a variant of the Jaro distance metric (Jaro, 1989, 1995) and mainly used in the area of record linkage (duplicate detection). The higher the Jaro-Winkler distance for two strings is, the more similar the strings are. The Jaro-Winkler distance metric is designed and best suited for short strings such as person names. The score is normalized such that 0 equates to no similarity and 1 is an exact match. |