> -Original Message-
> From: Tom McNeer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2007 10:09 AM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: Re: "Smart Names" implementation
>
> Jake,
>
> As I say, fuzzy name matching is a very large-scale software challenge
Jake,
You're getting into an area that has been wrestled with for years, and the
true solutions are very, very complex. So your choices on implementation
will depend on just far into the forest you want to go.
Do a Google search on "fuzzy name matching." You'll find links to academic
white papers
On 3/7/07, Jake Pilgrim wrote:
>
> ...
> Now that I think about it, maybe I'm looking at the wrong approach...
> There's always the potential for type-o's and I would like to catch those
> too ("Robert" vs "Roebrt") -- obviously this would be beyond the
> capabilities of a smart name search (unless
I guess I was thinking of something a bit more relational (2 tables: [id,name]
[id,sameAsID]), but your example would do the trick :).
However I could see this becoming an additional bottleneck in our system. We
often have tables with tens or hundreds of thousands of records, and there are
a n
I've done something similar with part numbers. The hard part isn't
doing lookups -- one table, three columns (id, name1, name2), two
subselects -- the hard part is populating that table.
I'm happy to show you how to do the lookup, but do you have a plan for
populating the table?
--Ben Doom
J
Has anyone implemented "smart names" (i.e. a search for "Bob" would match
"Bobby" or "Robert") functionality in Coldfusion? Anyone have any examples I
can view?
Thanks!
Jake Pilgrim
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