What is the best way to match word and calculate percentage?

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I am stuck in a such scenario where I have to match the words with a string that doesn't contains any pattern and calculate matching percentage.
For Ex:,

Search term	String to match
1) I have lots of work.	1) There is no work to complete now days.
2) I am working at a such a place where it is hard to find single person for a week.	2) I am working.

Please show me some way...!

Posted 17-Nov-14 3:30am

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Updated 17-Nov-14 4:44am

Maciej Los

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BillWoodruff 17-Nov-14 9:45am

Unclear: what is the difference in the way in which "Search term" is used compared to "String to match" ?

What does "percentage" mean here ?

Show us a "successful" example of a match and a calculated percentage ?

Member 7695634 17-Nov-14 10:10am

I have to match words in the first column sentence with the second column sentence and calculate the matching percentage. For ex, in the first sentence only "work" is the matching word in both the sentence.

BillWoodruff 17-Nov-14 12:38pm

So, given "I am working" is the match in the second example how do you calculate a percentage: a percentage of what ?

Do you take the match string and the length of the text it occurs in and compute some ratio ?

ZurdoDev 17-Nov-14 10:17am

Click Improve question and show us the code you have so far and where you are stuck.

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Maciej Los · Answer 1 · 2014-11-17T04:46:00

Solution 1

Years ago i have asked similar question: Text similarity algorithm[^].
Please, read it.

Posted 17-Nov-14 4:46am

Maciej Los

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Manas Bhardwaj 18-Nov-14 6:54am

I liked the old question :) +5!

Maciej Los 18-Nov-14 7:02am

Thank you, Manas ;)