Hi Robert,
Currently, partial query match is not supported. Our main concern was
displaying search results for the root worss in the query(installing -
> install), because that support is highly needed for a search
engine. But a little thinking about partial matching suggested that
this *might* be possible to do it by some JavaScripting. Have to think
it through!
Wildcard searching is just a extended version of this. It's fine if
David plans to put in to the next year, but I'll see what I can do for
it.
And does supporting for searches like 'nstall' is really needed? I
think usage of that kind of feature is very less and would not worth
the effort we put in to it!
Regards,
--Kasun
Sent from my iPhone
On 12 Aug 2010, at 08:26 PM, "Cramer, David W (David)" <[email protected]
> wrote:
Hi Robert,
Kasun knows more about the details of the stemmer, but I can point
you to the documentation for the porter stemmer we used:
http://snowball.tartarus.org/algorithms/porter/stemmer.html
Currently, English, French, and German are supported.
You are correct search does not support wildcards in searches, and I
don't believe that
the algorithm would return results with the same base but different
prefixes (i.e. searching for "inhibit" won't show pages with
"exhibit"), but I think that's normal for any search engine.
I'll add "Support wildcards in query string" to the list of future
features. I thought I had added it there already but I see now that
it's not listed.
Thanks,
David
-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Fekete [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2010 7:14 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] Help needed testing CJK search support
in webhelp
Hi David,
First of all, thank you for both of you for your work, it looks very
promising!
I have a few questions about how search and stemming works:
- Is it possible to add partial matches to the search results? For
example, now
if you search for install, installing, or installed, the same
results are
returned (correctly), because these words all come from install. But
if you
don't type the entire word (say, only 'inst'), there aren't any
results.
- Am I right that the search engine does prefix-only matches?
(nstall, *nstall,
etc. does not work)
Regards,
Robert
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