RE: PossitionIndex (was: Re: [Zope-dev] ZCatalog phrase indexingr evisited)
A lot of folks who do "power searches," say, librarians or other trained researchers, familiar with the bells and whistles of more powerful search engines, will want a simple operator for proximity, with the ability to specify proximity depth: For example: Lexis-Nexis: Sean w/2 Upton (where w/2 is within 2 words) Also, lexis doesn't count stop-words in proximity indexes. Folio/Nextpage: "Sean Upton"@2 IMHO, the syntax is clean and very brief in the Lexis-Nexis case and should suppliment a more generic Sean ... Upton style search. Sean -----Original Message----- From: Chris McDonough [mailto:chrism@digicool.com] Sent: Saturday, June 16, 2001 2:59 AM To: Erik Enge Cc: zope-dev@zope.org Subject: Re: PossitionIndex (was: Re: [Zope-dev] ZCatalog phrase indexingrevisited) Erik Enge wrote:
On Fri, 15 Jun 2001, Chris McDonough wrote:
Once you're satisfied with the implementation, would you be willing submit the module to the collector?
Will do. Have you thought about how users actually are to use exact-phrase? What I'm thinking I will do here (currently I've only been testing explicitly with "adjoinedby" in the query) is to insert "adjoinedby" in phrased searches:
"erik enge" -> erik adjoinedby enge erik ... enge -> erik near enge
What do you think?
These both look like good spellings, and I think "erik near enge" would be a good alias for "erik ... enge" as well.. - C _______________________________________________ Zope-Dev maillist - Zope-Dev@zope.org http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope )
On Sat, 16 Jun 2001 sean.upton@uniontrib.com wrote:
Lexis-Nexis: Sean w/2 Upton (where w/2 is within 2 words)
This wouldn't be hard to make happen. I don't know if it is better to do it before of after the parsers, though. Maybe a more userfriendly alias would be best as a default?
sean.upton@uniontrib.com writes:
A lot of folks who do "power searches," say, librarians or other trained researchers, familiar with the bells and whistles of more powerful search engines, will want a simple operator for proximity, with the ability to specify proximity depth:
For example:
Lexis-Nexis: Sean w/2 Upton (where w/2 is within 2 words) Also, lexis doesn't count stop-words in proximity indexes. Folio/Nextpage: "Sean Upton"@2
IMHO, the syntax is clean and very brief in the Lexis-Nexis case and should suppliment a more generic Sean ... Upton style search. I do not think, it is a good idea to have an infix operator for proximity searches. This combines just 2 words but proximity searches may involve more than two words: a set of words, near together (e.g. in one paragraph, sentence, within x words).
Dieter
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