Does Texis have fuzzy logic?
Yes. The Texis facility for accomplishing this is called approximate pattern matching. This generates a similarity measure between any two words or patterns, expressed as a percentage of closeness. The user or application developer may control the degree of closeness. This capability most commonly is desired to accommodate spelling mistakes in either the queries or the data. It can be useful in searching scanned documents, which tend to have errors resulting from the imperfect OCR process. Developers should use this feature with caution, however. Fuzzy logic, by its nature, brings back some records unrelated to the either the user’s query words or the intended meaning. This tends to confuse and annoy users not expecting this style of response.
