Lack of reference to fuzzy matching.

[mrkkollo]

There has been a commit to add support for fuzzy matching using the "max_cost" argument in extract_keywords, however there seems to be no reference to it in the README and the documentation. Currently it feels like many people don't know such a feature is available.

[olgnaydn]

Its not good idea to use flashtext with max_cost argument. We have tested it and it is much slower than fuzzywhuzzy. For fuzzy matching, i would recommend to use fuzzywhuzzy

On Thu, 25 Jun 2020 at 14:47, Marko Kollo [email protected] wrote:

There has been a commit to add support for fuzzy matching using the "max_cost" argument in extract_keywords, however there seems to be no reference to it in the README and the documentation. Currently it feels like many people don't know such a feature is available.

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[remiadon]

Hi, I implemented the "fuzzyness" feature for flashtext Benchmarks are not included, and I agree it's lacking of documentation.

Amongst other things, there is a need to make it "smarter", and, perhaps, faster.

@olgnaydn do you have an example to provide that makes you argue that fuzzywhuzzy is more suitable when performance matters ? From what I know fuzzywhuzzy is not designed for multi-words matching, but I may be wrong

[shivampuri20]

hi where i can find max argument