On Apr 17, Neil Van Dyke wrote:
> For the students, the help system knows what Language and Teachpacks
> are in use, possibly what modules are in use, and maybe even what
> HtDP assignment is being worked on.
>
> There are a few additional techniques that might improve relevance
> ranking and recall for this purpose:
>
> * TFIDF to focus on the most information-carrying terms.
TFIDF would be suitable if we had a full-text index. We don't -- the
search is using only index entries, so there is no different amounts
of information associated with various terms.
> * Application-specific synonym dictionary that you could come up
> with yourself pretty easily.
> * General synonym dictionary, such as from WordNet.
> * Latent Semantic Indexing.
These are also all tools that would fit a full text search facility.
Doing that doesn't seem to me to be practical in javascript. (We're
scratching the limits of browsers as it is, and as you've
experienced.)
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