[Zope] Re: [Zope-dev] ZCatalog and 'fuzzy logic'

2001-01-10 Thread Dieter Maurer
Morten W. Petersen writes: > It seems I misunderstood the term fuzzy logic myself. Fuzzy logic means > if I search for a word, for example 'programmer', it will return matches > to the words 'program', 'programming','programmable' etc. This, usually, is called "stemming". Though, your examples

[Zope] Re: [Zope-dev] ZCatalog and 'fuzzy logic'

2001-01-10 Thread Casey Duncan
--- "Morten W. Petersen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > > It seems I misunderstood the term fuzzy logic > myself. Fuzzy logic means > if I search for a word, for example 'programmer', it > will return matches > to the words 'program', 'programming','programmable' > etc. > > I.e., it will s

[Zope] Re: [Zope-dev] ZCatalog and 'fuzzy logic'

2001-01-10 Thread Ken Manheimer
On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, Morten W. Petersen wrote: > > I do not think that "fuzzy logic" is strongly related to "regexp-like". > > Anyway. > > > > Fuzzy searching often means "finding matches with characters omitted, > > replaced or inserted". > > It seems I misunderstood the term fuzzy logic mysel

[Zope] Re: [Zope-dev] ZCatalog and 'fuzzy logic'

2001-01-10 Thread Morten W. Petersen
> I do not think that "fuzzy logic" is strongly related to "regexp-like". > Anyway. > > Fuzzy searching often means "finding matches with characters omitted, > replaced or inserted". It seems I misunderstood the term fuzzy logic myself. Fuzzy logic means if I search for a word, for example 'pro

[Zope] Re: [Zope-dev] ZCatalog and 'fuzzy logic'

2001-01-09 Thread Dieter Maurer
Morten W. Petersen writes: > Is there anyone who could try to give an estimate of how long it would > take to add fuzzy logic (regexp-like) searching capability to the > ZCatalog? I do not think that "fuzzy logic" is strongly related to "regexp-like". Anyway. Fuzzy searching often means "findi