Search using Jaro–Winkler similarity algorithm

[Bakha87]

Description

Could you please add searching using Jaro–Winkler similarity algorithm feature in next releases or provide a plugin that implements the mentioned functionality. Thank you

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Pinging @elastic/es-search (Team:Search)

[benwtrent]

Jaro-Winkler focuses on the edit distance of strings, similar to Levenshtein. Elasticsearch does text search via an inverted index. Scoring documents based on tokens/terms matched via some algorithm (default being BM25).

I don't see how J-W would work in an inverted index system.

Can you expound on how are you expecting to use this during search and why do you need it?

[Bakha87]

I need to select all records that match the search string by more than 85%. I can give an example of a request in Oracle

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Pinging @elastic/es-search-relevance (Team:Search Relevance)