thanks for your reply... yes your example is exactly what we want, except as you have indicated the scope is unfortunately large!
we basically need our application linked to some form of existing thesaurus that we can query for synonyms, and then in our code make sure it also searches for those words. Basically, our software is used for medical data, and we are finding users typing words such as 'mother' when another user entered the data as 'maternal', therefore the data is not being found. This happens on various different scenarios and is why we are thinking rather than attempting to build our own, we could possibly utilize an existing synonym dictionary plug-in ... if one exists! thanks for any pointers >One way (probably isn't the best, but it's workable depending on your >site traffic) is to take and create a relationship table. I.E. Cat is >related to Feline and Cat is related to Tiger, etc. > >The issue is.. What do you mean by "Related" words? How broad of a >scope are you taking about? Is Cat related to Dog (both animals) or is >Cat related to Cities (housecats)? > >You need to define your scope more clearly to even see if this is feasible. > > >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:344087 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
