Diff Tools

sesdiff – generates a shortest edit script

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

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


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