A search suggestion can be made by a search engine when it discovers that the enduser entered poor or unknown keywords. The search engine will then suggest better keywords as in "Don't you mean [keywords]?".
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searchSuggestThreshold attribute doesn't work : ContentProvider triggered on every typed character
I have a search widget within the action bar of my main activity. I would like to display suggestions after the user type at least 2 characters.
I'm aware this can be done by setting android:searchSuggestThreshold="2", but it doesn't seem to work…
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Way to get ParseObjects to custom Search suggestions in Android
I want to ask, if is there some way to get ParseObjects to Search suggestions-box in Android. I've succesully created recent-query suggestions and it worked well. But right now do I need to put there one string collection from Parse.com while the…
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twitter typeahead dropbown suggestion not working
I am using twitter typeahead for auto completing and its a great plug-in for auto-completion. However I had one issue using it.
It doesn't show the top suggestions at the beginning of a drop down as shown in image attached
Here the word started…
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android, finding related words (not autocomplete)
When I type "Goat" my keyboard gives me a suggestion of the next word being "cheese", "milk" maybe more. These things are related and I am using a stock keyboard on my Nexus 4.
What API suggests that? I want to be able to store contextual words…
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Solr & Suggestions - When does the search engine generate (build) suggestions
When does Solr (v4) generate or build its suggestions (when indexing or when searching)?
Because, I dont understand the two options buildOnCommit & buildOnOptimize in Solr? Which of the two is the best (in speed and efficiency) to use?
And, in…
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how word suggestion in microsoft word guesses the alternatives?
look at this example in ms word; I deliberately misspelled the word 'complemet' to show you what I mean;
I wonder how ms word chooses the most similar words to what I typed(algorithm I mean)
this is not the case of spell checking but finding the…
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content provider unknown uri
I am trying to access to sqlite content to take suggestion in searchview. I'm not able to establish connection between provider and sqlite database.I take illegalArgumentException, uknown uri.
What is the exact syntax of content uri for my code.…
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Android searchable dictionary sample code wrong?
I found interesting bug in Android Searchable dictionary sample application.
Follow these steps to reproduce it:
type "bo" in a search box
click go
click "bogus" from the results
when you see result and a definition, invoke search again
type "coa"…
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Finding and suggesting most similar queries from a query log
Given a query log of about 10 million queries I have to write a program that will ask query from the user and display most similar 10 queries to the input query as a output. Also in case of spelling mistakes it may suggest the correct spellings.…
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How do I implement multi-select autocomplete text box in Rails?
If you go here, and click in the search box for the field 'Where' and choose any of the options, you will see that they get added to the field and you can continue adding terms to the 'where' field.
I implemented search functionality in it's own…
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Lightweight library cappable of suggesting different spellings of words from a bounded set?
I was looking for lightweight library that'd allow me to feed it a bunch of words, and then ask it whether a given word would have any close matches.z
I'm not particularly concerned with the underlying algorithm (I reckon a simple hamming distance…
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autosuggestion box, set focus
Been knocking up a simple suggestion box on an input field.. all working as it should so far except for two issues I can't seem to resolve:
1) when onkeypress event fires, the value of the input box is not correct - it misses off the last character!…
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search suggestion - PHP - MySQL
I have a MySQL query as below;
$query = "SELECT * FROM dictionary WHERE word LIKE '%".$word."%' ORDER BY word LIMIT 10";
This will search for (and display) words in my dictionary db.
the search will return;
Drunken for Drunk, etc, etc.. ,
Drunken…
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Adding activity context to search suggestion Intent
First some background.
In my edit item activity I have added search functionality to change of one of the item's data fields. (Its manufacturer and make). Since the user can select from quite a large amount of items, we have decided to use search…
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Solr suggester no results while building
We're using the Solr (8.11) suggester for an autosuggest feature in our application. The build takes about 2 days to finish and as a result the autosuggest is not available during this time.
I tried to create duplicate search component and…
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