Fuzzy Matching: Identifying Words with Similar Spelling
The Fuzzy Match advisor can be helpful in finding word variants or misspellings in a database-the result of
typographical mistakes or errors during OCR (optical character recognition) processing. Also, if you have doubts about
the spelling of a query word, you can use the Fuzzy Match Advisor to verify it.
After entering a query word in the Search Screen, you can activate the Fuzzy Match Advisor by clicking its radio
button and clicking the Get Results button.
Note: The Fuzzy Match Advisor acts on the first word in a multi-word query.
The Fuzzy Match Screen displays a list of words with spelling similar to the first word in your query. If a word in the
list occurs in more than one active database, the number of parent databases is displayed parenthetically.
Feedback Searching with the Fuzzy Match Advisor
You can include any Fuzzy Match Screen entry in your query by clicking it and then clicking the Add Terms to Query
button. You can select multiple words for inclusion by control-clicking them (command-clicking for Macintosh
clients).
After clicking the Add Terms to Query button, you will see your selection(s) appended to your current query.
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