I'm new to Lucene, and would like to use it to find duplicate (or
similar) names in a contact list. Is Lucene a good fit?
We have a form where a user enters a company or person's name, and we
want the system to warn them if there is already a company or person
entered with the same or similar name.
Based on the little I know of Lucene, I'm thinking an NGram algorithm
(based on characters, not words) would work best... but, I'm not sure if
Lucene takes proximity or edit distances into account? For example, say
you have these two names:
Andrew John
John Andrew
If a user enters Andy John, without proximity or edit distance, these
two names will match about the same, while, obviously, the first name
should be ranked higher.
Thanks in advance for any help or advice.
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