<p>I have a system for tagging articles. Each editor ads different tags to each piece of content. For example:</p>

<p>for A: George Washington, first president
for B: first president, Washington George
for C: George Bush, USA</p>

<p>Is there any way I can generate "possible similar tags". For example I need to suggest to the editor that "George Washington" and "Washington George" are similar and I should merge them.</p>

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2014-01-29T10:42:55.633Z
This is called  [Conflation](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conflation_%28disambiguation%29), which is known problem with a lot of works about it. 

It extends to beyond identifying person by name.
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Conflation seems to be more about text. I might have gave some bad examples. For example, i want to suggest that the following tags are similar: government, administration.
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# Analyze tags similar tags

(Asked by: username_0 on 2014-01-29)

I have a system for tagging articles. Each editor ads different tags to each piece of content. For example:

for A: George Washington, first president
for B: first president, Washington George
for C: George Bush, USA

Is there any way I can generate "possible similar tags". For example I need to suggest to the editor that "George Washington" and "Washington George" are similar and I should merge them.

**Tags:** ds.algorithms, data-mining

> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: This is called  [Conflation](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conflation_%28disambiguation%29), which is known problem with a lot of works about it.   It extends to beyond identifying person by name.  
> **username_0**: Conflation seems to be more about text. I might have gave some bad examples. For example, i want to suggest that the following tags are similar: government, administration.  

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