[Developers] RFE: fuzzy search

[Shug Boabby]

Excellent!

All the examples I have seen of this API are URL based... is there a
way to send JSON queries? Specifically, I want to get the Wikipedia ID
in the response.

2008/7/18 Andi Vajda <vajda at metaweb.com>:
>
> 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..
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