Hi folks,
I've been looking through the developer docs to try to find out if I can
do fuzzy searching or any type of phonetic searching in XQuery with Mark
Logic.
Does anyone know if there any functions to determine similarities and
distance between strings - e.g. soundex, levenstein, metaphone?
Specifically, I'd like to be able to do lucene-style fuzzy searches
based on levenstein distance (for example, in Lucene, a search for
"roam~" will find words like "foam" and "roams"). The spellcheck module
looks like it does something similar, but I'm not sure what the
implementation is based on? How does it find words from a dictionary
that are spelt similarly to the search term? Is there any developer
control over this?
I'd also like to be able to do phonetic searches, so that, for example,
a search for "fiziks" would match "physics" since they are phonetically
similar. A few relational databases support "soundex" searches, and
SOLR supports the use of various phonetic transcription algorithms. I
guess that I could create an index of phonetic transcriptions during
content load, and do lookups based on that, but it would be good if
there was something I could use 'out-of-the-box'.
Could anyone shed any light on this?
Many thanks,
-Steve
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