[Haskell-cafe] Inecxact map?

[Sterling Clover]

On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 6:14 AM, Holger Siegel <holgersiegel74 at yahoo.de> wrote:
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> Am 13.03.2012 um 09:15 schrieb Morten Olsen Lysgaard:
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>> I'd like to be able to do inexact lookups on the map. Firstly, ignore the difference between upper lower case, that's easy. But secondly, have a function:
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>> search :: (Num b) => Data.Map.Map String a -> String -> b -> [a]
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>> This function is like the normal lookup, but it takes an extra argument b. B is the allowed character error rate. That is the Levenstein distance divided on the length. It should return all the strings that has an error rate lower that b and in a ordered manner, best first.
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> You could take a trie and extend the lookup functions so that it also returns inexact matches up to a given error rate. That should be quite easy, because the definition of Levenshtein distance is recursive as well as the trie's lookup function.

There are also Burkhard-Keller trees, which are a pretty cool data
structure: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/bktrees-0.3.1

--S.