fuzzy search

[iclbloom]

I am looking for a function to help my users who are "spelling challanged", this is especially true when proper nouns are concerned, most of the errors in spelling are phonetically correct. How does the Fuzzy search work with phonetically spelled word i.e. "sounds like". See the link to the Metaphone below.

Metaphone algorithm.

http://velocity.activestate.com/code/cp ... phone.html

or the older “soundex” seems to work well w/ names.

From your documentation:
"The approximate pattern matcher lets you find "looks roughly like" or "sounds like" information. To invoke a fuzzy match precede the word or pattern with the '%' (percent) character."

Thanks
Leon

[mark]

The approximate pattern matcher can not take advantage of an index so you need to search for a non-fuzzy term to narrow the scope down substantially. You would need to enable alpostproc in your vortex script for the approximate search to be accepted.

[iclbloom]

Soundex does the simple minded things like making, bloom, blume, blum all map to B450 and
reagan, raygun, raygan all map to R250 how can I get this functionality using texis/vortex.

Thanks
Leon Bloom

[mark]

XPM is not soundex. It does a good job of finding misspellings. See http://www.thunderstone.com/site/texisman/node210.html for usage details.