Natural Language Processing with Python Quick Start Guide

FuzzyWuzzy

Let's see how we can use FuzzyWuzzy to correct our misspellings.

Use the following code to install FuzzyWuzzy on your machine:

import sys!{sys.executable} -m pip install fuzzywuzzy# alternative for 4-10x faster computation: # !{sys.executable} -m pip install fuzzywuzzy[speedup]

FuzzyWuzzy has two main modules that will come in useful: fuzz and process. Let's import fuzz first:

from fuzzywuzzy import fuzz# Trying the ratio and partial_ratio fuzz.ratio("Electronic City Phase One", "Electronic City Phase One, Bangalore")# 82fuzz.partial_ratio("Electronic City Phase One", "Electronic City Phase One, Bangalore")# 100

We can see how the ratio function is confused by the trailing Bangalore used in the preceding address, but really the ...