Thread: Text search name and name synonims dictionary
I have a column, containing the name of the user and there is a need to organize an indexed search on this column. As far as I understand, I need to use the full-text search capabilities of postgres. I would like to attach a dictionary, containing many possible names, and the short names like: William Will Bill Billy James Jim Jimmy etc., which will give me a possibility to perform indexed search on any of these names and it will give me all the matches on variations of the name, regardless of which of them was chosen as a search argument. 1. Is it possible to do that with postgres' full-text search capabilities? 2. Does anyone know, if there is a Russian dictionary of these names? 3. What is the name of such kind of dictionary, to know, what to google for? Thanks in advance, and regards Igor Katson.
On Thu, 29 Jan 2009, Igor Katson wrote: > I have a column, containing the name of the user and there is a need to > organize an indexed search on this column. As far as I understand, I need to > use the full-text search capabilities of postgres. > > I would like to attach a dictionary, containing many possible names, and the > short names like: > > William Will Bill Billy > James Jim Jimmy > > etc., which will give me a possibility to perform indexed search on any of > these names and it will give me all the matches on variations of the name, > regardless of which of them was chosen as a search argument. > > 1. Is it possible to do that with postgres' full-text search capabilities? yes, look on contrib/dict_xsyn > 2. Does anyone know, if there is a Russian dictionary of these names? there are printed dictionaries, not sure about electronic versions. > 3. What is the name of such kind of dictionary, to know, what to google for? http://yandex.ru/yandsearch?text=словарь+личных+имен > > Thanks in advance, and regards > Igor Katson. > > Regards, Oleg _____________________________________________________________ Oleg Bartunov, Research Scientist, Head of AstroNet (www.astronet.ru), Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow University, Russia Internet: oleg@sai.msu.su, http://www.sai.msu.su/~megera/ phone: +007(495)939-16-83, +007(495)939-23-83
Oleg Bartunov wrote: > On Thu, 29 Jan 2009, Igor Katson wrote: > >> I have a column, containing the name of the user and there is a need >> to organize an indexed search on this column. As far as I understand, >> I need to use the full-text search capabilities of postgres. >> >> I would like to attach a dictionary, containing many possible names, >> and the short names like: >> >> William Will Bill Billy >> James Jim Jimmy >> >> etc., which will give me a possibility to perform indexed search on >> any of these names and it will give me all the matches on variations >> of the name, regardless of which of them was chosen as a search >> argument. >> >> 1. Is it possible to do that with postgres' full-text search >> capabilities? > > yes, look on contrib/dict_xsyn > >> 2. Does anyone know, if there is a Russian dictionary of these names? > > there are printed dictionaries, not sure about electronic versions. > > >> 3. What is the name of such kind of dictionary, to know, what to >> google for? > > http://yandex.ru/yandsearch?text=словарь+личных+имен > >> >> Thanks in advance, and regards >> Igor Katson. >> >> > > Regards, > Oleg > _____________________________________________________________ > Thanks for the help, Oleg!