I'm new to Lucene, and would like to use it to find duplicate names in a contact list. Is Lucene a good fit? We have a form where a user enters a company or person's name, and we want the system to warn them if there is already a company or person entered with the same or very similar name. Based on the little I know of Lucene, I'm thinking an NGram algorithm (based on characters, not words) would work best... but, I'm not sure if Lucene takes proximity or edit distances into account? For example, say you have these two names: Andrew John John Andrew
If a user enters Andy John, without proximity or edit distance, these two names will match about the same, while, obviously, the first name should be ranked higher. Thanks in advance for any help or advice. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Looking-for-duplicate-names-tp16705188p16705188.html Sent from the Lucene - General mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
