Partition the index, do testing on users. What do you want to do?
Stephen On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 5:11 PM, Matthias Felleisen <matth...@ccs.neu.edu> wrote: > > Where do we stand with context-sensitive search in drscheme? > > I am in Beginner, I type 'image', and I get results on the first page that > have almost nothing to do with the htdp/image library except for > alpha-color-list->image, a concept that I am unlikely to even use in a > typical 211. > > Another example concerns Module, and I am looking for 'keyword'. The first > few entries don't look like what I want. So "Declaring Keyword Arguments" > and "Keyword Arguments" look like the right thing. I open both and I start > reading two strangely related but not quite the same doc pieces. What's > going on? I can't see the margin note at the top of the page that mzlib/kw > isn't compatible with the new stuff. > > I am recounting these stories from my perspective but they didn't happen to > me. > > We need to improve this search somehow. -- Matthias > > P.S. I am so used to the kind of results I get and what I have to look for > that I didn't even see the problem until someone else rubbed my nose in > it._________________________________________________ > For list-related administrative tasks: > http://list.cs.brown.edu/mailman/listinfo/plt-dev > -- Cheers, Stephen -- Stephen De Gabrielle s.degabrie...@cs.ucl.ac.uk Telephone +44 (0)20 7679 0693 (x30693) Mobile 079 851 890 45 Project: Making Sense of Information (MaSI) Work:http://www.uclic.ucl.ac.uk/annb/MaSI.html Home:http://www.degabrielle.name/stephen UCL Interaction Centre MPEB 8th floor University College London Gower Street London WC1E 6BT _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://list.cs.brown.edu/mailman/listinfo/plt-dev
