title: Abbreviation Detection for Python
body: <p>I am trying to measure the similarity of company names, however I am having difficulties while I'm trying to match the abbreviations for those names. For example:</p>
  
  <pre><code>IBM
  The International Business Machines Corporation
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I have tried using <code>fuzzywuzzy</code> to measure the similarity:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&gt;&gt;&gt; fuzz.partial_ratio("IBM","The International Business Machines Corporation")
  33
  &gt;&gt;&gt; fuzz.partial_ratio("General Electric","GE Company")
  20
  &gt;&gt;&gt; fuzz.partial_ratio("LTCG Holdings Corp","Long Term Care Group Inc")
  39
  &gt;&gt;&gt; fuzz.partial_ratio("Young Innovations Inc","YI LLC")
  33
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Do you know any techniques to measure a higher similarity for such abbreviations?</p>