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by dandermotj 3336 days ago
If anyone wants to know how deep down the rabbit hole this stuff goes, they should read this blog post [1] on writing a Levenshtein Automaton to speed up fuzzy matching in Lucene by 100 times. It gets deep!

[1]: http://blog.mikemccandless.com/2011/03/lucenes-fuzzyquery-is...

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I am going to have to go through [1] referenced in the post.

[1]: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.16.6...