Hi Sue,

 

Lucene (the search system used by DSpace) is 'stemming' the words
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stemming
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stemming> ). It indexes the stem of the
word (in this case propel) so that it can find similar words (engine
will find engines etc).

 

Thanks,

 

 

Stuart Lewis

IT Innovations Analyst and Developer

Te Tumu Herenga The University of Auckland Library

Auckland Mail Centre, Private Bag 92019, Auckland 1142, New Zealand

Ph: 64 9 373-7599 x81928

http://www.library.auckland.ac.nz <http://www.library.auckland.ac.nz/> /

 

 

 

From: Thornton, Susan M. (LARC-B702)[RAYTHEON TECHNICAL SERVICES
COMPANY] [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Thursday, 6 August 2009 9:31 a.m.
To: [email protected]
Cc: Smail, James W. (LARC-B702)[RAYTHEON TECHNICAL SERVICES COMPANY]
Subject: [Dspace-tech] Strange Search results

 

A User emailed me and told me he was getting some incorrect search
results in DSpace 1.5.1.  Here is the advanced search he did:

 

Title = propeller

 

Along with documents where the title contained the word "propeller", he
also got lots of documents where the title contained the word
"propellant".  I tried it and got the same results.  I also tried
looking for "propeller NOT propellant" and then got *no* results.

 

I thought maybe Lucene was cutting off the "er" and/or "ant", but
couldn't find this anywhere in the documentation.  Does anyone know what
might be going on?

 

Thanks,

Sue

 

 

Sue Walker-Thornton

ConITS Contract
NASA Langley Research Center
Integrated Library Systems Application & Database Administrator

130 Research Drive

Hampton, VA  23666

Office: (757) 224-4074
Fax:    (757) 224-4001
Pager: (757) 988-2547 
Email:  [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> 

 

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