Pattern recognition (I think)

Question

I would like to filter the values ​​from a table column that are actually the same as each other but they contain writing errors.
See "tree name" below in t he list. I would like to filter the various occurrences of "tree name" from the column. Is that possible? where to start?


unique value 1
unique value 2
unique value 3
other values ...
tree name
Tree name
tree ame
tre name
other values ...
other values ...

Thanks.

Answer 1

Hello,

You might look at machine learning pattern recognition which requires building an model and training.

https://dotnet.microsoft.com/apps/machinelearning-ai

https://visualstudiomagazine.com/articles/2013/03/01/pattern-recognition-with-perceptrons.aspx

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Answer 2

I finally found it. 

Levenshtein distance is the right search term to find a solution.