Release History¶

0.3.0 (2018-10-15)¶

Fixed implementation of Bag distance
Updated BMPM to version 3.10
Fixed Sphinx documentation on readthedocs.org
Split string fingerprints out of clustering into their own module
Added support for q-grams to skip-n characters
New phonetic algorithms:
- Statistics Canada
- Lein
- Roger Root
- Oxford Name Compression Algorithm (ONCA)
- Eudex phonetic hash
- Haase Phonetik
- Reth-Schek Phonetik
- FONEM
- Parmar-Kumbharana
- Davidson’s Consonant Code
- SoundD
- PSHP Soundex/Viewex Coding
- an early version of Henry Code
- Norphone
- Dolby Code
- Phonetic Spanish
- Spanish Metaphone
- MetaSoundex
- SoundexBR
- NRL English-to-phoneme
New string fingerprints:
- Cisłak & Grabowski’s occurrence fingerprint
- Cisłak & Grabowski’s occurrence halved fingerprint
- Cisłak & Grabowski’s count fingerprint
- Cisłak & Grabowski’s position fingerprint
- Synoname Toolcode
New distance measures:
- Minkowski distance & similarity
- Manhattan distance & similarity
- Euclidean distance & similarity
- Chebyshev distance & similarity
- Eudex distances
- Sift4 distance
- Baystat distance & similarity
- Typo distance
- Indel distance
- Synoname
New stemmers:
- UEA-Lite Stemmer
- Paice-Husk Stemmer
- Schinke Latin stemmer
Eliminated ._compat submodule in favor of six
Transitioned from PEP8 to flake8, etc.
Phonetic algorithms now consistently use max_length=-1 to indicate that there should be no length limit
Added example notebooks in binder directory