Fuzziness stopped working after me adding synonym file to the index. It seems like , it's not possible to use them at the same time. My query: "query": { "dis_max": { "queries": [{ "multi_m...

I have a set of 40.000 rows x 4 columns and I need to compare each column to itself in order to find the most closest result or the minimum levenshtein distance. The idea is to get an "almost ...

Each time I added some strings to a Django project, I run "django-admin.py makemessages -all" to generate .PO files for all locales. The problem is even I only added 5 news strings, the makemessag...

I am trying to create a program in R to replace city names or airport names with the three digit airport code. I want to do fuzzy matching to allow more flexibility since the data with the city/air...

Why sometimes I get a fuzzy item in django.po language file. Actually, I have checked in my project the fuzzy string item is totally unique. #: .\users\views.py:81 .\users\views.py:101 #, fuzzy m...

I have a file with x number of string names and their associated IDs. Essentially two columns of data. What I would like, is a correlation style table with the format x by x (having the data in qu...

I have a large database (potentially in the millions of records) with relatively short strings of text (on the order of street address, names, etc). I am looking for a strategy to remove inexact d...

I am implementing a Fuzzy Date control in C# for a winforms application. The Fuzzy Date should be able to take fuzzy values like Last June 2 Hours ago 2 Months ago Last week Yesterday Last year ...

Is it at all possible to parse C++ with incomplete declarations with clang with its existing libclang API ? I.e. parse .cpp file without including all the headers, deducing declarations on the fly....

I'm looking for a fuzzy date algorithm. I just started writing one and realised what a tedious task it is. It quickly degenerated into a lot of horrid code to cope with special cases like the diffe...

Are there any libraries for Java that allow you to interpret dates like "Yesterday", "Next Monday", ...

I really like ido's fuzzy matching in emacs. I would like to have that with autocompletion. Preferably with auto-complete, since I have ac-python and other things setup with auto-complete. I am awa...

Using R, I am trying match on people's names in a dataset structured by year and city. Due to some spelling mistakes, exact matching is not possible, so I am trying to use agrep() to fuzzy match na...

This is more of an 'interesting' phenomena I encountered in a Python module that I'm trying to understand, rather than a request for help (though a solution would also be useful). >>> imp...

I have two tables that I need to merge together in PostgreSQL, on the common variable "company name." Unfortunately many of the company names don't match exactly (i.e. MICROSOFT in one table, MICRO...

I'm trying to cluster some data I have from the KDD 1999 cup dataset the output from the file looks like this: 0,tcp,http,SF,239,486,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,8,8,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,1.00,...

I am searching for a .NET library that can store and manage fuzzy (i.e. uncertain) dates/times, that is, temporal expressions that do not follow the usual precise pattern of day, month, year, hour,...

I am using both Daitch-Mokotoff soundexing and Damerau-Levenshtein to find out if a user entry and a value in the application are "the same". Is Levenshtein distance supposed to be used as an abso...

Does someone know a easy way to find characters in Unicode that are similar to ASCII characters. An example is the "CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER DZE (ѕ)". I'd like to do a search and replace for similar c...

You know the functionality in Excel when you type 3 rows with a certain pattern and drag the column all the way down Excel tries to continue the pattern for you. For example Type... test-1 tes...