simstring(1) build database and find similar words

SYNOPSIS

simstring [OPTIONS]

DESCRIPTION

This utility finds strings in the database (DB) such that they have similarity, in the similarity measure (SIM), no smaller than the threshold (TH) with queries read from STDIN. When -b (--build) option is specified, this utility builds a database (DB) for strings read from STDIN.

OPTIONS

These programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-'). A summary of options is included below. For a complete description, see the Info files.
-b, --build
build a database for strings read from STDIN
-d, --database=DB
specify a database file
-u, --unicode
use Unicode (wchar_t) for representing characters
-n, --ngram=N
specify the unit of n-grams (DEFAULT=3)
-m, --mark
include marks for begins and ends of strings
-s, --similarity=SIM
pecify a similarity measure (DEFAULT='cosine'):

exact exact match
dice dice coefficient
cosine] cosine coefficient
jaccard jaccard coefficient
overlap overlap coefficient
-t, --threshold=TH
specify the threshold (DEFAULT=0.7)
-e, --echo-back
echo back query strings to the output
-q, --quiet
suppress supplemental information from the output
-b, --benchmark
show benchmark result (retrieved strings are suppressed)
-v, --version
show this version information and exit
-h, --help
show summary of options and exit