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Tim Allison commented on LUCENE-5033:
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I agree that it appears to, but if you want a distance > 2, the current
levenshtein automaton doesn't allow that
(http://blog.mikemccandless.com/2011/03/lucenes-fuzzyquery-is-100-times-faster.html?showComment=1303598602291#c3051732466052117784).
The classic QueryParser silently converts distances > 2 to 2.
If I understand SlowFuzzyQuery correctly, it uses the levenshtein automaton for
distances <= 2, but it runs brute force if the distance is > 2.
My personal preference would be to undeprecate SlowFuzzyQuery (certainly leave
it in the sandbox) because it offers a capability that the current levenshtein
automaton doesn't. In cases where the indices are very large, it wouldn't make
sense to expose distance > 2 capability; but on small to medium indices, there
are use cases that require it.
> SlowFuzzyQuery appears to fail with edit distance >=3 in some cases
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>
> Key: LUCENE-5033
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-5033
> Project: Lucene - Core
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: modules/other
> Affects Versions: 4.3
> Reporter: Tim Allison
> Priority: Minor
> Attachments: LUCENE-5033.patch
>
>
> Levenshtein edit btwn "monday" and "montugu" should be 4. The following
> shows a query with "sim" set to 3, and there is a hit.
> public void testFuzzinessLong2() throws Exception {
> Directory directory = newDirectory();
> RandomIndexWriter writer = new RandomIndexWriter(random(), directory);
> addDoc("monday", writer);
>
> IndexReader reader = writer.getReader();
> IndexSearcher searcher = newSearcher(reader);
> writer.close();
> SlowFuzzyQuery query;
> query = new SlowFuzzyQuery(new Term("field", "montugu"), 3, 0);
> ScoreDoc[] hits = searcher.search(query, null, 1000).scoreDocs;
> assertEquals(0, hits.length);
> }
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