Text Similarity w/ Levenshtein Distance in Python

Building a Plagiarism Detection Pipeline in Python

Vatsal
Towards Data Science
8 min readMar 14, 2022

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In this article I will go over the intuition behind how Levenshtein distance works and how to use Levenshtein distance in building a plagiarism detection pipeline.

Table of Contents

  • Introduction to Text Similarity

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