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
