Another Word For It Patrick Durusau on Topic Maps and Semantic Diversity

December 9, 2012

Autocomplete Search with Redis

Filed under: Authoring Semantics,Authoring Topic Maps,AutoComplete,Redis — Patrick Durusau @ 2:43 pm

Autocomplete Search with Redis

From the post:

When we launched GetGlue HD, we built a faster and more powerful search to help users find the titles they were looking for when they want to check-in to their favorite shows and movies as they typed into the search box. To accomplish that, we used the in-memory data structures of the Redis data store to build an autocomplete search index.

Search Goals

The results we wanted to autocomplete for are a little different than the usual result types. The Auto complete with Redis writeup by antirez explores using the lexicographical ordering behavior of sorted sets to autocomplete for names. This is a great approach for things like usernames, where the prefix typed by the user is also the prefix of the returned results: typing mar could return Mara, Marabel, and Marceline. The deal-breaking limitation is that it will not return Teenagers From Mars, which is what we want our autocomplete to be able to do when searching for things like show and movie titles. To do that, we decided to roll our own autocomplete engine to fit our requirements. (Updated the link to the “Auto complete with Redis” post.)

Rather like the idea of autocomplete being more than just string completion.

What if while typing a name, “autocompletion” returns one or more choices for what it thinks you may be talking about? With additional properties/characteristics, you can disambiguate your usage by allowing your editor to tag the term.

Perhaps another way to ease the burden of authoring a topic map.

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