Classify text labels in to a similar category I'm trying to classify same kind of text labels in to one category. For example, if I have labels like qty, quantity, qty_no all of them should direct to Quantity. Since I'm new to data science, what's the best way to start this kind of thing?
One way to do it could be with fuzzy string search. Levenshtein distance algorithm is what you may use for it.


  ... the Levenshtein distance is a string metric for measuring the difference between two sequences. Informally, the Levenshtein distance between two words is the minimum number of single-character edits (insertions, deletions or substitutions) required to change one word into the other.  From wikipedia



More on Levenshtein distance -

https://stackoverflow.com/a/5859823/5406448