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[FEATURE] Improve query route search with stemming or similar functionality #180

Open adambuttrick opened 1 year ago

adambuttrick commented 1 year ago

Describe the problem you would like to solve Searching for organizational name variants with apostrophes removed or in singular (vs plural form) can fail to return the correct result. For example, Boston Children's Hospital (correct formal name) returns the correct ID (https://ror.org/00dvg7y05), but both Boston Childrens Hospital (no apostrophe) and Boston Children Hospital (missing the plural) return different institutions as as the top result.

Describe the solution you'd like Searching for these variant forms should return the correct result, as it does in the affiliation route:

https://api.ror.org/organizations?affiliation=Boston%20Childrens%20Hospital https://api.ror.org/organizations?affiliation=Boston%20Children%20Hospital

Who would benefit from this feature? Anyone making use of search

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