ALGORITHM - String similarity score/hash

Question

Is there a method to calculate something like general \"similarity score\" of a string? In a way that I am not comparing two strings together but rather I get some number/scores

Answer 1

There are several such "scores", but they all depend on how you define similarity.

• I think the python library already has a soundex implementation.
• you can also compute the Levenshtein distance of two strings
• NYSIIS?