Re: [Tracker] text search is implicitly always OR

["Marcus Fritzsch" <fritschy googlemail com>]

Hey,

On 7/26/06, Samuel <sciyoshi gmail com> wrote:
> Also, as I said earlier, there's a difference when matching
> "wallpaper" vs "wallpapers", or "pictures" and "picture", or
> "accommodate" vs "accomodate". Ideally, there should be some sort of
> stemming (Porter, for example) and maybe the double metaphone
> algorithm to do fuzzier matching. Of course, the Porter stemming would
> bring up issues when using Tracker in other languages, though I think
> there are also algorithms for French and German (that I know of).

Languages was also my first concern about these - also the metaphone
is language... dependent, aren't there any language independent soft
matching algorithms available? Not only to match words being *close*
but also for words that were slightly misspelled....

As a first stop: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuzzy_string_searching :)

Rgds, Marcus