Hi anuvenk, On 01/03/2008 at 9:20 PM, anuvenk wrote: > I'm facing a crucial problem with numbers in the search terms for eg: > searching for chapter 7 returns a couple of results that are not related > to chapter 7 bankruptcy. The first result i get only has a match for the > number 7 which i should get rid of somehow. would adding a synonym like > 7 => bankruptcy or 7 => chapter 7 help?
This doesn't sound to me like a problem with numbers. This sounds like a problem with terms that are used in more than one context, and that also happen to be numbers. What you do to fix the problem really depends on what your use cases are. Is "chapter 7" a raw user query? How did you populate your index? Is "chapter 7" a single term in the index? One of the keys to successful search is maximizing the conjunction of the query and document term spaces. Have you tried searching for "chapter 7" as a phrase? Steve
