Ask HN: How do you standardise strings to search against list of tags?

1 pointsby jeanpraloalmost 6 years ago

I want to be able to match words from a search API against list of tags / categories so would like to know what are your best practises and if you know of any good python libaries ?<p>What are the best approaches ? - tokenisation - stemming - lemmatization

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bjournealmost 6 years ago

It depends on your use case. Who are your users? What is your data? Do you want phrase queries? Etc. NLTK is a good library to start with.