[Libreoffice-ux-advise] [Bug 150693] Confusing language in Similarity Search

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=150693

stragu <stephane.guillou at member.fsf.org> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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           See Also|                            |https://bugs.documentfounda
                   |                            |tion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12
                   |                            |9492
                 CC|                            |stephane.guillou at member.fsf
                   |                            |.org
            Version|7.2.7.2 release             |6.3.6.2 release
             Status|UNCONFIRMED                 |NEW
     Ever confirmed|0                           |1

--- Comment #8 from stragu <stephane.guillou at member.fsf.org> ---
The labels were the same in:

Version: 6.3.6.2
Build ID: 2196df99b074d8a661f4036fca8fa0cbfa33a497
CPU threads: 8; OS: Linux 5.15; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3; 
Locale: en-AU (en_AU.UTF-8); UI-Language: en-US
Calc: threaded

I would be happy with:

- Exchange at most [] characters
- Add at most [] characters
- Remove at most [] characters

(In reply to Eike Rathke from comment #5)
> For choosing the wording it may be important to know roughly about the
> Weighted Levenshtein Distance (WLD) algorithm. It looks for a possible
> transformation of the search term to a text string by measuring an "edit
> distance". That transformation can be accomplished by different operations,
> for example "ab" can be transformed to "ac" by either replacing/substituting
> 'b' with 'c' (distance of 1), or by removing/deleting 'b' and then
> adding/inserting 'c' (distance of 2).
> See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levenshtein_distance

In that sense, the documentation could be improved:

https://help.libreoffice.org/7.5/en-US/text/shared/01/02100100.html?System=UNIX&DbPAR=WRITER&HID=cui/ui/similaritysearchdialog/grid1#bm_id3154815

Using wording like "how many times a character can be added when computing the
edit distance between the search string and the matched string".

Related to this, there's bug 129492

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