Jaro-Winkler Matching Algorithm

Does anyone know where to get the source for this algorithm?
I've searched on the web, but there's nothing but science papers on the algorithm. I'm an average joe and some of the stuff in them science papers goes well over me head
So if any one has it could ya lend us a hand and pass it on, please.
Even if you have it in a different language it will be fine.
Thanks,
Thomas

i read something about this algorithm and i will try to explain, how i understood it. perhaps it will help you.
well the algorithm determines how similar two strings are and return a value between 0.0 (strings completely don't match)and 1.0 (strings completely match).
this value is calculatable with this formula:
��*(commons/LengthOfString1 + commons / LengthOfString2 + transpositions / commons).
you see it is very important to know what commons and transpositions are. i will try to explain (my english is not very good:-)).
commons are the amount of letters both of the strings have in common. but these letters must not have exactly the same position, but the fitting letter must be in an interval that is maximal half of the length of the shorter string.an example the strings are "Jonos" and "Johnson".the length of the the shorter string is 5. half of this length is rounded to 2. well if you consider the third letter of "Jonos". the n have to be in the interval (3-LengthOfShorterString,3+LengthOfShorterString)=(1,5) of "Johnson".
see: http://www.wiwiss.fu-berlin.de/lenz/winfo/download/seminar/StringcomparisonTechniken.pdf !!
well it is german but there are images which explain what commons and transpositions are. see the bottom of page 13 (beispiel 9=example 9) and page 14. the amount of connected lines is the value for commons.
the transpositions:
transpositions=commons-(amount of crossing lines -the amount of crossing bundles)
well i hope this will help you!
regards
iwon

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