missinglink
commented
4 years ago The only real negative I can see with this is that it might have a performance penalty at index-time, so it's relatively safe to merge, although I can't see half of these words being used in place names?
Some thoughts:
- The list is very general purpose, many of the words are
verbsandadjectiveswhich are less common in place names compared withnouns, eg:
"cannibalise,cannibalize",
"cannibalised,cannibalized",
"cannibalises,cannibalizes",
"cannibalising,cannibalizing",- From what I could tell, most of the differences are a Levenshtein Distance of one apart, usually due to the use of a different vowel. Or.. (mostly in British English) using two vowels in the place of one for the equivalent US English, or interchangeable use of 'z' and 's' as per the example above.
If this is the case then spelling-correction would to some degree solve the same problem.
- There are some words which are totally different depending on the culture, such as "Garbage/Trash/Rubbish", "Sweets/Candies/Lollies" etc. I don't think we really want to have these are pure synonyms? I'm on the fence whether "Pub" is the same as a "Bar"? "Post Office/Mail Office"... not sure about all these?
[edit] actually I had another look at the list and none of my examples in 3. were actually listed!?
blackmad
orangejulius
This was motivated by someone searching for "Marina Theater" when the correct name of the POI is "Marina Theatre" - by adding aliases at index time this should fix such searches in both autocomplete & search.