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    FUZZY STRING MATCHING   


 *  FuzzyMatch.apply is a method for comparing 2 names, that uses Levenshtein algorithm.
 *  The Levenshtein algorithm (also called Edit-Distance) calculates the
 *  least number of edit operations that are necessary to modify one string to obtain another string.
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 *  Method FuzzyMatch.apply returns 0 to 1 correlation between 2 names.
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 *  Names, that are used for fuzzy matching previously are:
 *
 *  1. Transliterated
 *  2. Alphabetically sorted
 *  3. Converted to lowercase and trimmed for extra whitespaces



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