[Developers] RFE: fuzzy search

[Andi Vajda]

On Fri, 18 Jul 2008, Andi Vajda wrote:

> On Fri, 18 Jul 2008, Shug Boabby wrote:
>
>> This RFE got lost in one of my posts from a few days ago. Copied here.
>>
>> It would be awesome to be able to send off a "fuzzy text match" query.
>> I tend to use combinations of "a:key~=" etc, but it would be really
>> really good to be able to basically do a search engine style search
>> across the keys that can perhaps do simple things like stemming of
>> words, removal of stop words, rearranging words, minor spelling
>> corrections, alternative words and arbitrary dropping of some words in
>> longer queries... like one would expect from a search bar. I believe
>> Apache Lucene does much of this. As a solid example, I would like it
>> if a search for "smashin pumpkins" [sic] would return "The Smashing
>> Pumpkins", or if a search for "The Queen of England" would include
>> Elizabeth_II_of_the_United_Kingdom" along with
>> "Elizabeth_I_of_England".
>
> The Freebase search server is Lucene-based and implements a lot of this
> already. See http://www.freebase.com/api/service/search for more
> information.

Sorry, that URL should be:
http://www.freebase.com/view/guid/9202a8c04000641f8000000006ad84c9

Andi..