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 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 think your talking about something else. Last i checked, "fuzzy logic"
was a logical algebra based on the existence of intermediate truth states,
between "true" and "false". It has little or nothing to do with
aproximate searching, though i guess you could use it to make assertions
about the aproximations. I think what you all are talking about is "fuzzy
matching".
> I.e., it will somewhat intelligently return words that are similar in
> what they mean, using grammar rules (chopping off endings of words and
> making them match others).
There are also matching mechanisms like soundex, that account for
misspelling by translating words to phonetic-equivalent normalized codes,
and comparing on that basis.
Ken
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