[Xapian-discuss] FuzzyQuery, Re: Result Snippet Highlighting?

[Olly Betts]

On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 06:12:46PM +0200, Gert Brinkmann wrote:
> Peter Karman wrote:
> 
> > The history of the naming is confusing. The Lucy Apache project is still called Lucy.
> > http://lucene.apache.org/lucy/  <-- That is what KinoSearch refers to.
> 
> But this seems to be a little bit outdated, too.

If you want information on Lucene-related projects, this isn't really
the place to ask!

> Another feature that I cannot find is, if a fuzzy query is possible in
> xapian? (So that e.g. "gna linxu" does find "gnu linux" but gives it a
> lower rating.)

It would certainly be possible to implement something like that using
Xapian, but you'd have to set it up yourself (index "fuzzy" versions
of terms, then search for them along with the query terms as entered
but with a lower weight).

There is a built-in spelling correction feature, but that suggests an
alternative query string rather than munging the query.

Cheers,
    Olly