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davemacdo / composer-diversity

a frontend for the Composer Diversity Project
https://davemacdo.github.io/composer-diversity/
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Fuzzy search #12

Closed davemacdo closed 6 years ago

davemacdo commented 6 years ago

Names can be hard to spell. Let's help.

robdeemer commented 6 years ago

Ooh…how do we help?

davemacdo commented 6 years ago

Sorry, I was being jokey. There's a concept in search called "fuzzy" search which is forgiving of misspellings. There's a pretty good library for it. It shouldn't be too hard to implement, but it's a new technique for me, so I'm putting it in the 1.1 milestone.

davemacdo commented 6 years ago

For my benefit later: http://fusejs.io/

davemacdo commented 6 years ago

The fuzzy search algorithms I tried all introduced too many problems for this particular dataset. Instead, I addressed what I think it the biggest concern: diacriticals. Diacriticals are now forgiving in searches. To test this, you'll note that searches for irene now bring up names which include Iréne, which it didn't before. Closing the issue for now.

robdeemer commented 6 years ago

Awesome—thanks!

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The fuzzy search algorithms I tried all introduced too many problems for this particular dataset. Instead, I addressed what I think it the biggest concern: diacriticals. Diacriticals are now forgiving in searches. To test this, you'll note that searches for irene now bring up names which include Iréne, which it didn't before. Closing the issue for now.

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