pandaproject/panda — Issue #476: Fuzzy matching of names
Author: onyxfish
Created: 2012-02-27 22:30:54+00:00
State: open
Labels: feature

We want "Bill" to match "William" and vice versa. We could use this:

https://code.google.com/p/nickname-and-diminutive-names-lookup/source/browse/trunk/names.csv

and right a custom query filter that expands these names to all their common synonyms. This shouldn't even be all that hard.