DoorDash Eng Blog: Augmenting fuzzy matching with human review to maximize precision and recall

[https://doordash.engineering/2022/10/18/augmenting-fuzzy-matching-with-human-review-to-maximize-precision-and-recall/](https://doordash.engineering/2022/10/18/augmenting-fuzzy-matching-with-human-review-to-maximize-precision-and-recall/)

I recently solved a business problem at DoorDash: we needed a way to onboard new advertisers (brands that sell products at convenience/grocery stores) at scale, without having to manually identify all their products that are available on DoorDash. We used a fuzzy-matching classifier with a human in the loop.

The part I find the most interesting is how we were able to take an out-of-the-box fuzzy matching algorithm and – with relatively little technical effort – tweak it to …

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