Re: [docbook-apps] Help needed testing CJK search support in webhelp

[Kasun Gajasinghe <kasun.gajasinghe@gmail.com>]

Hi Robert,
Currently, partial query match is not supported. Our main concern was  
displaying search results for the root worss in the query(installing - 
 > install), because that support is highly needed for a search  
engine. But a little thinking about partial matching suggested that  
this *might* be possible to do it by some JavaScripting. Have to think  
it through!
Wildcard searching is just a extended version of this. It's fine if  
David plans to put in to the next year, but I'll see what I can do for  
it.

And does supporting for searches like 'nstall' is really needed? I  
think usage of that kind of feature is very less and would not worth  
the effort we put in to it!

Regards,
--Kasun

Sent from my iPhone

On 12 Aug 2010, at 08:26 PM, "Cramer, David W (David)" <dcramer@motive.com 
 > wrote:

> Hi Robert,
> Kasun knows more about the details of the stemmer, but I can point  
> you to the documentation for the porter stemmer we used:
>
> http://snowball.tartarus.org/algorithms/porter/stemmer.html
>
> Currently, English, French, and German are supported.
>
> You are correct search does not support wildcards in searches, and I  
> don't believe that
> the algorithm would return results with the same base but different  
> prefixes (i.e. searching for "inhibit" won't show pages with  
> "exhibit"), but I think that's normal for any search engine.
>
> I'll add "Support wildcards in query string" to the list of future  
> features. I thought I had added it there already but I see now that  
> it's not listed.
>
> Thanks,
> David
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert Fekete [mailto:frobert@balabit.com]
> Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2010 7:14 AM
> To: docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org
> Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] Help needed testing CJK search support  
> in webhelp
>
> Hi David,
>
> First of all, thank you for both of you for your work, it looks very  
> promising!
> I have a few questions about how search and stemming works:
> - Is it possible to add partial matches to the search results? For  
> example, now
> if you search for install, installing, or installed, the same  
> results are
> returned (correctly), because these words all come from install. But  
> if you
> don't type the entire word (say, only 'inst'), there aren't any  
> results.
> - Am I right that the search engine does prefix-only matches?  
> (nstall, *nstall,
> etc. does not work)
>
> Regards,
>
> Robert
>
>
>
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