matcher
- noun
- /ˈmæʧər/
- Specialized
- The data in question related to country names in a datafile that needed fusing with country names in a listing of ISO country codes, although the recipe I'm describing here is intended to be a general-purpose partial matcher. (See the comments for alternative methods for the special case of reconciling country names with country codes.)
- term matcher
Examples
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As we will see, the enhancement is possibly achieved by electromechanical forces generated by the OHCs acting in unison with inertial forces produced by the tectorial membrane to form a dynamic impedance matcher.
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If VCs are "pattern matchers" for new deal qualification, then instantly women are handicapped.
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Let's go now to the first slide showing some of the structure of the matcher at a large scale.
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The Outer Hair Cell as an Impedance Matcher
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We estimate this degree of match using the term matchers described earlier in the Matching Graph Nodes section.
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Each term matcher posts a confidence value on the degree of match between two assertions based on its own resource for determining equivalence.
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All right, so that's just a review of pattern matcher syntax that you've already seen.
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We employ an aggregate of term matchers (Murdock et al. 2012a) to match pairs of assertions.
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The matcher identified the correct patterns in the dataset and helped extract the relevant information.
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Using a regular expression matcher, the program successfully located all instances of the specified format in the text files.
How General
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Matcher comes from match, which means 'to pair' or 'make the same', like finding the right key for a lock. In computing, a matcher is the part of a program that finds items that 'fit' a pattern.