Feature request: Way to stop closely spelled words from switching over - nephrology vs. neurology

[mmorris8]

I'm using Algolia on a medical site. Nephrology - the study of the kidneys, has nothing to do with neurology - study of the nervous system. But these two Latin words are only 2 Levenshtien apart (change p to u, drop the h) so they'll match each other on all but the tightest typo settings. Now, I don't want to drive my users up the wall by requiring exact matches at all time because let's face it, medical terms are a pain in the tail to spell. BUT, I need a way to tell Algolia that some pairs of words are not valid matches for each other despite the closeness of their spelling.

If this is already a feature I'm game to learn it, but I don't see anything in the interface.

[Haroenv]

This is more a question for support than related to InstantSearch, but I wonder if an approach can be to add a rule for an exact match on nephrology and neurology to either filter or turn off typo tolerance (just for that query).

I'm not an expert on all our advanced options so we may have something more interesting in the options (dictionaries? synonyms?) too.

[mmorris8]

I'll look into this. I'm also having trouble placing "kidney" as, depending on the patient's situation that can be a urologist or nephrologist's area. I'd like a search for that term to bring up all results from both of those groups with equal weight.

Thank you for your time.

[mmorris8]

Also, I noticed that we didn't have a language set. It allows for more than one so I set English, and would like to set Latin as most medical terms are drawn from that dead language. It's not an option though.

[Haroenv]

for your first question, I think this can be a one-way synonym: https://www.algolia.com/doc/guides/managing-results/optimize-search-results/adding-synonyms/#one-way-synonyms

For the second I don't know. I believe the language is mainly used for multi-word queries and sentence-like queries to remove stop words.

for more detail again, I'd suggest you contact support.