I need to do a fuzzy search with transliteration of the characters, for example:
I have an ASP.NET application, database, which has a table with a list of Spanish words (200,000 entries), I also have a page with an input field. The point is that I do not know Spanish, and I do not know how to spell a search word in Spanish, but I know how it sounds. Therefore, in the text box I enter the search word, such as "beautiful", but in the recording err - "prekieso", and I need to get from the database got the correct version: "precioso".
How can this be implemented? In other words, I need something similar to Google suggestions...
I think what you need here is a spell checking functionality like this one: http://www.codeproject.com/KB/string/netspell.aspx
A google like functionality it's much more advanced though and will not be easy to implement:
How does the Google "Did you mean?" Algorithm work?
hope this help.
The stored procedure / function, the algorithm calculates the distance Levenshtein:
USE [**dbname**]
GO
/****** Object: UserDefinedFunction [dbo].[levenshtein] Script Date: 05/27/2013 17:54:05 ******/
SET ANSI_NULLS ON
GO
SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER ON
GO
ALTER FUNCTION [dbo].[levenshtein](@left varchar(100), @right varchar(100))
returns int
as
BEGIN
DECLARE @difference int, @lenRight int, @lenLeft int, @leftIndex int, @rightIndex int, @left_char char(1), @right_char char(1), @compareLength int
SET @lenLeft = LEN(@left)
SET @lenRight = LEN(@right)
SET @difference = 0
If @lenLeft = 0
BEGIN
SET @difference = @lenRight GOTO done
END
If @lenRight = 0
BEGIN
SET @difference = @lenLeft
GOTO done
END
GOTO comparison
comparison:
IF (@lenLeft >= @lenRight)
SET @compareLength = @lenLeft
Else
SET @compareLength = @lenRight
SET @rightIndex = 1
SET @leftIndex = 1
WHILE @leftIndex <= @compareLength
BEGIN
SET @left_char = substring(@left, @leftIndex, 1)
SET @right_char = substring(@right, @rightIndex, 1)
IF @left_char <> @right_char
BEGIN -- Would an insertion make them re-align?
IF(@left_char = substring(@right, @rightIndex+1, 1))
SET @rightIndex = @rightIndex + 1
-- Would an deletion make them re-align?
ELSE
IF(substring(@left, @leftIndex+1, 1) = @right_char)
SET @leftIndex = @leftIndex + 1
SET @difference = @difference + 1
END
SET @leftIndex = @leftIndex + 1
SET @rightIndex = @rightIndex + 1
END
GOTO done
done:
RETURN @difference
END
invoking:
select
dbo.edit_distance('Fuzzy String Match','fuzzy string match'),
dbo.edit_distance('fuzzy','fuzy'),
dbo.edit_distance('Fuzzy String Match','fuzy string match'),
dbo.edit_distance('levenshtein distance sql','levenshtein sql server'),
dbo.edit_distance('distance','server')
or:
SELECT [Name]
FR OM [tempdb].[dbo].[Names]
WHERE dbo.edit_distance([Name],'bozhestvennia') <= 3