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Discussing 'Text Matches' Feature Improvement in Typesense

TLDR Stefan asked if distance in 'text matches' can be determined. Kishore Nallan said no and asked for an issue to be created on Github, which was done by Stefan.

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Oct 29, 2021 (23 months ago)

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Stefan

06:59 AM

Is there an easy to tell when the "text matches" are pretty far? As in only 3 out 6 tokens were matched or something? I'd like to use this distance to show something like: "Can't find what you are looking for? Request here"

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Kishore Nallan

07:05 AM

No there's no easy way to tell this. The match score is an aggregation of multiple scores but the components are not directly exposed. Can you please create an issue for this on Github? I think it will be great to expose the ranking information.

Stefan

07:09 AM

on it

07:15

Stefan

07:15 AM

https://github.com/typesense/typesense/issues/425

Kishore Nallan

07:15 AM

:ty:

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