fuzzy-search Questions

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I'm looking for a way to make Vim have the ability to open a file by fuzzy-searching its name. Basically, I want to be able to define a project once, and then have a shortcut which will give me a ...
Mollee asked 3/3, 2010 at 15:4

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I downloaded the .exe file and placed it into my PATH variable. fzf seems to work in command prompt. But I would like to use it in git-bash. When i use fzf in git-bash it seems to start but nothing...
Kailey asked 21/5, 2020 at 21:1

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How can I search symbols (e.g. class) with partial words in VS Code and IntelliSense? In VS Code, it's possible to look for files with partial words. For example, it's possible to locate a file thi...
Prostration asked 15/1, 2020 at 13:17

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I have a scenario, where I have data for informal communications that I need to be able to search. Therefore I want full text search, but I also to make sense of spelling mistakes. Question is how ...
Jagannath asked 21/1, 2020 at 15:3

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I have the following dataframe: d_test = { 'name' : ['South Beach', 'Dog', 'Bird', 'Ant', 'Big Dog', 'Beach', 'Dear', 'Cat'], 'cluster_number' : [1, 2, 3, 3, 2, 1, 4, 2] } df_test = pd.DataFrame(...
Quaternion asked 11/12, 2022 at 9:11

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I'm looking for a string similarity algorithm that yields better results on variable length strings than the ones that are usually suggested (levenshtein distance, soundex, etc). For example, Giv...
Vindication asked 17/3, 2009 at 6:10

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Using algorithms like leveinstein ( leveinstein or difflib) , it is easy to find approximate matches.eg. >>> import difflib >>> difflib.SequenceMatcher(None,"amazing","amaging")....
Klement asked 19/7, 2013 at 7:51

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I've built up a large database of banks in MongoDB. I can easily take this information and create indexes with it in whoosh. For example I'd like to be able to match the bank names 'Eagle Bank &amp...
Concepcion asked 15/7, 2011 at 15:55

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I am trying to use the BK-tree data structure in python to store a corpus with ~10 billion entries (1e10) in order to implement a fast fuzzy search engine. Once I add over ~10 million (1e7) values ...
Designer asked 6/1, 2021 at 0:15

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Say I have three example strings text1 = "Patient has checked in for abdominal pain which started 3 days ago. Patient was prescribed idx 20 mg every 4 hours." text2 = "The time of di...
Recurvate asked 26/4, 2022 at 16:7

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I'm using Elasticsearch to search names in a database, and I want it to be fuzzy to allow for minor spelling errors. Based on the advice I've found on the matter, I'm using "match" and "fuzziness" ...
Included asked 11/7, 2014 at 13:51

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I'm trying to implement elasticsearch for searching products. Some product names contains numbers. I use fuzzy-search to make life easier for the users but I don't want the numbers to be fuzzy-sear...
Touter asked 30/1, 2018 at 9:8

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I'm writing a desktop UI (.Net WinForms) to assist a photographer clean up his image meta data. There is a list of 66k+ phrases. Can anyone suggest a good open source/free .NET component I ca...
Cottonmouth asked 21/11, 2011 at 21:8

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How to get all documents in mongodb with one levenshtein distance. I have collection for football teams. { name: 'Real Madrir', nicknames: ['Real', 'Madrid', 'Real Madrir' ... ] } And user s...
Nootka asked 26/11, 2016 at 11:55

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I'm trying to use the similarity function in Postgres to do some fuzzy text matching, however whenever I try to use it I get the error: function similarity(character varying, unknown) does not exi...
Branca asked 12/2, 2010 at 20:44

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My users will import through cut and paste a large string that will contain company names. I have an existing and growing MYSQL database of companies names, each with a unique company_id. I want...
Honest asked 15/12, 2008 at 21:21

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I'm looking for a fuzzy search JavaScript library to filter an array. I've tried using fuzzyset.js and fuse.js, but the results are terrible (there are demos you can try on the linked pages)....
Guayaquil asked 26/4, 2014 at 0:11

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I have a bunch of rows in a basic CRUD app that I want to let the user search for by title. SQLite3 has a full-text search solution, but is it recommended to also use that for not-full-text searche...
Theatrician asked 29/4, 2018 at 12:44

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I'm getting a result in fuzzywuzzy that isn't working as well as hoped. If there is an extra word in the middle, due to the levenshtein difference, the score is lower. Example: from fuzzywuzzy i...
Underwood asked 31/7, 2018 at 23:56

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I've been working on a way to join two datasets based on a imperfect string, such as a name of a company. In the past I had to match two very dirty lists, one list had names and financial informati...
Bandicoot asked 16/10, 2014 at 13:37

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I wish to create a fuzzy search algorithm. However, upon hours of research I am really struggling. I want to create an algorithm that performs a fuzzy search on a list of names of schools. This ...

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I have vendor list that i need to match with my internal client names and extract some other internal metrics. Below is the sample vendor data hat has around 400 client names Peter Silver & Par...

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I'm building a web app using Node and MongoDB Atlas. I need to implement a search bar, which will be used to search a MongoDB collection in 2 particular fields. I was doing some research on the bes...

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I have come across a problem of matching a string in an OCR recognized text and find the position of it considering there can be arbitrary tolerance of wrong, missing or extra characters. The resul...
Ravi asked 7/12, 2010 at 10:25

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I need to automatically match product names (cameras, laptops, tv-s etc) that come from different sources to a canonical name in the database. For example "Canon PowerShot a20IS", "NEW powershot A...
Dendriform asked 27/2, 2009 at 15:37

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