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Calculating Text Match Score as a Percentage

TLDR Rohit asked how to determine a percentage match for text searches. Kishore Nallan explained the computation process and shared about an upcoming feature that will provide more detailed statistics.

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Rohit

07:55 AM

For example, If a document has text : Hello World! and I search for Hello . How can I know its a 45-50% match?

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Kishore Nallan

09:46 AM

👋 Rohit The text match score is an amalgamation of various components like number of words matching, number of typos, distance between matches etc. So there is no way to treat it as a percentage match.

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Kishore Nallan

09:47 AM

We do have an item in the backlog to break these individual score components down so when we do that, you will be able to pull out finer grain statistics

Rohit

09:51 AM

Kishore Nallan That is great. Thanks for the update. Typesense is really great. I'm doing a small POC for some project and this has helped me.

Kishore Nallan

09:53 AM

Glad to hear!

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