Fuzzy Index for Python, written in Rust. Works like error-tolerant dict, keyed by a human input.

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Overview

FuzzDex

FuzzDex is a fast Python library, written in Rust. It implements an in-memory fuzzy index that works like an error-tolerant dictionary keyed by a human input.

Algorithm

You load into fuzzdex series of short phrases - like street names consisting of one or multiple words, with an numerical index that identifies this street names in related dictionary of cities.

Then, you can query the index using a must-token (currently only one, but could be altered to use more) and additional should-tokens to read a total of limit of possibly matching phrases.

Must-token is trigramized (warszawa -> war ars rsz sza zaw awa) and all phrases containing given trigrams are initially read from the index. Trigrams have scores, the more common they are, the less they increase the phrase score. Trigrams of should-tokens additionally alter the score (positively when they match), but don't add additional phrases from index. Phrases are then sorted by score.

Top phrases are filtered to contain an optional constraint and the must-token with a maximal editing distance (Levenshtein) until limit of phrases is gathered.

Internally, the results of a must-token search are LRU cached as in practise it's pretty often repeated. Should-tokens vary and they are always recalculated.

Usecases

It was designed to match parts of a user supplied physical addresses to a data extracted from the OpenStreet map - in order to find streets and cities.

Address is first tokenized and then it's parts are matched against fuzzy dictionary of cities and streets. Additional constraints can limit the matched streets only to given city - or finding cities that have a given street.

Data is first searched for using trigrams (warszawa -> war ars rsz sza zaw awa), and then additionally filtered using maximal Levenshtein editing distance.

Original solution used fuzzy query of the Elasticsearch database, which worked - but was 21x slower in our tests.

Example

import fuzzdex
# Create two fuzzy indices with cities and streets.
cities = fuzzdex.FuzzDex()
# Warsaw has streets: Czerniakowska, Nowy Świat and Wawelska
cities.add_phrase("Warsaw", 1, constraints={1, 2, 3})
# Wrocław only Czerniawska
cities.add_phrase("Wrocław", 2, constraints={4})

streets = fuzzdex.FuzzDex()
# Streets with reversed constraints and own indices:
streets.add_phrase("Czerniakowska", 1, constraints={1})
streets.add_phrase("Nowy Świat", 2, constraints={1})
streets.add_phrase("Wawelska", 3, constraints={1})

streets.add_phrase("Czerniawska", 4, constraints={2})

# This recalculates trigram scores and makes index immutable:
cities.finish()
streets.finish()

# warszawa matches warsaw at editing distance 2.
cities.search("warszawa", [], max_distance=2, limit=60)
#    [{'origin': 'Warsaw', 'index': 1, 'token': 'warsaw',
#      'distance': 2, 'score': 200000.0, 'should_score': 0.0}]

# `świat` adds additional should score to the result and places it higher
# in case the limit is set:
streets.search("nowy", ["świat"], max_distance=2, constraint=1)
#    [{'origin': 'Nowy Świat', 'index': 2, 'token': 'nowy',
#      'distance': 0, 'score': 5.999, 'should_score': 7.4999}]

# Won't match with constraint 2.
streets.search("nowy", ["świat"], constraint=2)
#    []

# Quering for `czerniawska` will return `czerniakowska` (no constraints),
# but with a lower score and higher distance:
In [22]: streets.search("czerniawska", [], max_distance=2)
Out[22]:
#  [{'origin': 'Czerniawska', 'index': 4, 'token': 'czerniawska',
#   'distance': 0, 'score': 9.49995231628418, 'should_score': 0.0},
#  {'origin': 'Czerniakowska', 'index': 1, 'token': 'czerniakowska',
#   'distance': 2, 'score': 6.4999680519104, 'should_score': 0.0}]

Installation, development

You can install fuzzdex from PyPI when using one of the architectures it's published for (x86_64, few Python versions).

pip3 install fuzzdex

Or use maturin to build it locally:

pipenv install --dev
pipenv shell
maturin develop -r
pytest

You can also use cargo and copy or link the .so file directly (rename libfuzzdex.so to fuzzdex.so):

cargo build --release
ln -s target/release/libfuzzdex.so fuzzdex.so

build.sh has commands for building manylinux packages for PyPI.

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Comments
  • Error: index out of bounds

    Error: index out of bounds

    I was happy to find fuzzdex, as I try to identify word lemmas in older text with lots of spelling variation. Unfortunately, I got stuck. My code seems to work, but index searches only work about 1 out 10 times. The remaining attempts fail, with error messages like this;

    pyo3_runtime.PanicException: index out of bounds: the len is 1 but the index is 1

    The trouble-making line: print(former1.search("abbeddom", [], max_distance=3, limit=10))

    Any help is much appreciated.

    Thomas

    opened by thomtro 7
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