用Python编辑距离

Answer 1

你看的东西叫做编辑距离，这里是nice explanation on wiki。有很多方法可以定义这两个词之间的距离，而你想要的那个词叫做Levenshtein距离，这里是python中的一个DP实现。

def levenshteinDistance(s1, s2):
    if len(s1) > len(s2):
        s1, s2 = s2, s1

    distances = range(len(s1) + 1)
    for i2, c2 in enumerate(s2):
        distances_ = [i2+1]
        for i1, c1 in enumerate(s1):
            if c1 == c2:
                distances_.append(distances[i1])
            else:
                distances_.append(1 + min((distances[i1], distances[i1 + 1], distances_[-1])))
        distances = distances_
    return distances[-1]

还有一个couple of more implementations are here。

Answer 2

#this calculates edit distance not levenstein edit distance
word1="rice"

word2="ice"

len_1=len(word1)

len_2=len(word2)

x =[[0]*(len_2+1) for _ in range(len_1+1)]#the matrix whose last element ->edit distance

for i in range(0,len_1+1): #initialization of base case values

    x[i][0]=i
for j in range(0,len_2+1):

    x[0][j]=j
for i in range (1,len_1+1):

    for j in range(1,len_2+1):

        if word1[i-1]==word2[j-1]:
            x[i][j] = x[i-1][j-1] 

        else :
            x[i][j]= min(x[i][j-1],x[i-1][j],x[i-1][j-1])+1

print x[i][j]

Answer 3

这是我的Levenshtein distance版本

def edit_distance(s1, s2):
    m=len(s1)+1
    n=len(s2)+1

    tbl = {}
    for i in range(m): tbl[i,0]=i
    for j in range(n): tbl[0,j]=j
    for i in range(1, m):
        for j in range(1, n):
            cost = 0 if s1[i-1] == s2[j-1] else 1
            tbl[i,j] = min(tbl[i, j-1]+1, tbl[i-1, j]+1, tbl[i-1, j-1]+cost)

    return tbl[i,j]

print(edit_distance("Helloworld", "HalloWorld"))