sesdiff is a small and fast command line tool and Rust library that reads a two-column tab separated input from standard input and computes the shortest edit script (Myers’ diff algorithm) to go from the string in column A to the string in column B. It also computes the edit distance (aka levenshtein distance).
There is also a python binding available if you want to use sesdiff from Python.
It was written to build lemmatisers.
This is free and open source software.
Website: github.com/proycon/sesdiff
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Developer: Maarten van Gompel
License: GNU General Public License v3.0

sesdiff is written in Rust. Learn Rust with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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