View500 - FAQ - Search Capability

Does View500 support intelligent and phonetic search capability?
YES. View500 provides support for approximate matching on a search request, including phonetic matching and spelling correction, truncation matching, abbreviations, keyword matching, synonyms, and combinations of these.

Powerful Approximate Matching

• Human users won't always be precise in searching a directory
• Names can be mis-heard, transcribed incorrectly or shortened.

• A user may not be familiar with the conventional function or service keywords

• An acronym or abbreviation could have been used rather than the full title

• View500 supports a range of approximate matching strategies to better support searches by human users
   - fuzzy logic used to rank and return the best results
   - specialised indexes for rapid evaluation of approximate matches on large databases

Approximate Matching Strategies

  • Phonetic matching
e.g. "pane" will match "payne"
  • Typing correction
e.g. compensates for missing and transposed characters
  • Stem matching
e.g. "optics" will match "optical"
  • Synonym matching
e.g. "Bob" will match "Robert", "road" will match "street"
  • Abbreviation matching
e.g. "NSW" will match "New South Wales"
  • Word matching, including word synonyms, word phonetic matching and word typing correction
 
















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