That would be "Ad docs" now (i.e. ADobe, not MACromedia) On 1/3/07, Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mac docs? > > > > > > > "This e-mail is from Reed Exhibitions (Gateway House, 28 The Quadrant, > Richmond, Surrey, TW9 1DN, United Kingdom), a division of Reed Business, > Registered in England, Number 678540. It contains information which is > confidential and may also be privileged. It is for the exclusive use of the > intended recipient(s). If you are not the intended recipient(s) please note > that any form of distribution, copying or use of this communication or the > information in it is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have > received this communication in error please return it to the sender or call > our switchboard on +44 (0) 20 89107910. The opinions expressed within this > communication are not necessarily those expressed by Reed Exhibitions." > Visit our website at http://www.reedexpo.com > > -----Original Message----- > From: Dave Phillips > To: CF-Talk > Sent: Tue Jan 02 20:53:10 2007 > Subject: CFSEARCH, Verity, Scoring > > Using MX 6.1...I have a question regarding scoring in verity. First a > little background: > > According to Mac docs, STEM and MANY are modifiers that are the default > behavior of the CFSEARCH command (if you do not specify any other > modifiers). This is what allows us to get a 'score' result giving us a > 'relevancy' ranking of the results. The Mac docs state that STEM causes > similarly stemmed words to come up in the results (e.g. if you search on > 'instructs', your results will also include words like 'instructional', > instruction', etc.). > > Currently, the score is based on the number of occurrences of the search > criteria in a document. The more times it occurs in a document, the higher > the score. However, since we are using a STEM modifier, it's not just the > exact criteria that is used to determine the score, it's anything with the > same STEM. So, there exists the possibility, if not probability, that a > document with 4 occurrences of the word 'instructional' would have a higher > score than a document with 2 occurrences of the word 'instructs'. > > This is part of my problem. Our client wants the benefits of STEM > (including multiple similar terms in the search results) but wants documents > with the 'actual' criteria scored HIGHER than documents just having STEMS of > the criteria. > > Is this possible, and if so, how would you do it? My thinking is that the > only thing we could do is take the results from CFSEARCH and manipulate them > manually to change the scores, but that would be a huge hit on processing. > I really need to know if you can do this somehow with modifiers in Verity > that we can pass through the CFSEARCH interface. > > Thanks! > > Dave > > > >
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