Re: Searchproblem composite words

2007-05-03 Thread Walter Underwood
A agree that multi-word synonyms are an excellent way to do this. This may sound like a hack, but you'd end up doing this even if you had dedicated linguistic compound decomposition software. Those usually use a dictionary of common words and the dictionary rarely has all the words that are

Searchproblem composite words

2007-05-02 Thread Lutz Steinborn
Hi, I have a search problem with composite words. For example I have the composite word wishlist in my document. I can easily find the document by using the search string wishlist or wish* but I don't get any result with list. I can do a fuzzy search but this gives me too many results. Is

Re: Searchproblem composite words

2007-05-02 Thread Chris Hostetter
: For example I have the composite word wishlist in my document. I can : easily find the document by using the search string wishlist or wish* : but I don't get any result with list. what you are describing is basically a substring search problem ... sometimes this can be dealt with by using