[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Automatic stemming in Evergreen

2012-08-14 Thread Kathy Lussier
Hi all, We've had difficulty finding records in our catalog due to the automatic stemming that occurs when records are indexed in Evergreen. As an example, a title on one of our summer readings lists was The Assist by Neil Swidey. However, when users were searching for the assist as a title

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Automatic stemming in Evergreen

2012-08-14 Thread Dan Scott
On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 06:22:15AM -0400, Kathy Lussier wrote: Hi all, We've had difficulty finding records in our catalog due to the automatic stemming that occurs when records are indexed in Evergreen. As an example, a title on one of our summer readings lists was The Assist by Neil

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Automatic stemming in Evergreen

2012-08-14 Thread Mike Rylander
On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 9:16 AM, Dan Scott d...@coffeecode.net wrote: On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 06:22:15AM -0400, Kathy Lussier wrote: Hi all, We've had difficulty finding records in our catalog due to the automatic stemming that occurs when records are indexed in Evergreen. As an example, a

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Automatic stemming in Evergreen

2012-08-14 Thread Benjamin Kalish
From: Dan Scott d...@coffeecode.net Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Automatic stemming in Evergreen To: Evergreen Development Discussion List open-ils-dev@list.georgialibraries.org Message-ID: 20120814131607.ga21...@denials.laurentian.ca Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Tue

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Automatic stemming in Evergreen

2012-08-14 Thread Kathy Lussier
Thank you for your help and feedback Dan! This particular example is quite a concern! I haven't noticed anything similar yet, since we moved to Evergreen 2.3ish last week, and nobody has brought a similar problem to my attention, but it might just be early days for us. Echoing what Mike said,

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Automatic stemming in Evergreen

2012-08-14 Thread Kathy Lussier
Thanks Mike! Relating particularly to this example, though, is the (now generally unused) relevance adjustment code that targets exactly this problem by boosting the score of (without restricting to) exact word matches. One of the hopes with the convert some stored procedures from perl or

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Automatic stemming in Evergreen

2012-08-14 Thread Mike Rylander
2013 Library of Joensuu -- Message: 4 Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2012 06:22:15 -0400 From: Kathy Lussier kluss...@masslnc.org Subject: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Automatic stemming in Evergreen To: Evergreen Development Discussion List open-ils-dev