Hi Upayavira, The word I am searching for is "fight". Terms like "figth", "figh" are spelling mistakes of fight. So I would like to find them. "sight" is obviously not a spelling mistake of "fight". Even if it was a typo, I don't really want to match "sight" with "fight".
regards, Kamesh On Sun, Jun 9, 2013 at 10:49 PM, Upayavira <u...@odoko.co.uk> wrote: > You haven't stated why figh is correct and sight isn't. Is it because > the first letter is different? > > Upayavira > > On Wed, Jun 5, 2013, at 02:10 PM, కామేశ్వర రావు భైరవభట్ల wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have a problem where our text corpus on which we need to do search > > contains many misspelled words. Same word could also be misspelled in > > several different ways. It could also have documents that have correct > > spellings However, the search term that we give in query would always be > > correct spelling. Now when we search on a term, we would like to get all > > the documents that contain both correct and misspelled forms of the > > search > > term. > > We tried fuzzy search, but it doesn't work as per our expectations. It > > returns any close match, not specifically misspelled words. For example, > > if > > I'm searching for a word like "fight", I would like to return the > > documents > > that have words like "figth" and "feight", not documents with words like > > "sight" and "light". > > Is there any suggested approach for doing this? > > > > regards, > > Kamesh >
