splink_udfs

Phonetic, text normalization and address matching functions for record linkage.

Maintainer(s): RobinL

Installing and Loading

INSTALL splink_udfs FROM community;
LOAD splink_udfs;

Example

LOAD splink_udfs;
SELECT soundex(unaccent('Jürgen')); -- returns 'J625'

The splink_udfs extension provides functions for data cleaning and phonetic matching.

Includes soundex(str), strip_diacritics(str), unaccent(str), ngrams(list,n), double_metaphone(str) and faster versions of levenshtein and damerau_levenshtein.

Added Functions

function_name function_type description comment examples
build_suffix_trie aggregate NULL NULL
double_metaphone scalar NULL NULL
find_address scalar NULL NULL
ngrams scalar NULL NULL
soundex scalar NULL NULL
strip_diacritics scalar NULL NULL
unaccent scalar NULL NULL

Overloaded Functions

function_name function_type description comment examples
damerau_levenshtein scalar Extension of Levenshtein distance to also include transposition of adjacent characters as an allowed edit operation. In other words, the minimum number of edit operations (insertions, deletions, substitutions or transpositions) required to change one string to another. Characters of different cases (e.g., a and A) are considered different. NULL [damerau_levenshtein(‘duckdb’, ‘udckbd’)]
levenshtein scalar The minimum number of single-character edits (insertions, deletions or substitutions) required to change one string to the other. Characters of different cases (e.g., a and A) are considered different. NULL [levenshtein(‘duck’, ‘db’)]

Added Types

This extension does not add any types.

Added Settings

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