Advanced Searching Solutions
Typical directory servers and database systems have been designed to be data repositories that are accessed by other software applications. Such systems do not require sophisticated searching capabilities, since software applications are typically searching for a known value (such as an email address or a unique key).
When regular users are accessing data stores to locate information, they cannot be expected to be precise and exact. Human users will exhibit the following traits:
- Imprecise search terms
- Names can be mis-heard or shortened
- Not familiar with conventional function or service keywords
- Use acronyms and abbreviations
- Be unfamiliar with the correct spelling of a word
Advanced searching solutions allow human users to locate what they are looking for by accommodating for human error.
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The ViewDS directory server technology is designed to provide a quality directory service for human users. Advanced indexing technology allows ViewDS to index a wide range of information to overcome errors made by human users when searching.
ViewDS’s approximate matching capabilities include:
- Phonetic matching (“pane” will match “payne”)
- Typing correction (accommodated for missing, additional or transposed characters)
- Stem matching (“optics” will match “optical”)
- Synonym matching (“Bob” will match “Robert”)
- Abbreviation matching (“NSW” will match “New South Wales”)
- Noise word omissions
- Keyword matching
- Mandarin / Pinyin phonetic approximate matching
