[seqfan] Re: Searches

[franktaw at netscape.net]

I think the stemming hurts me about as often as it helps.

But, yes, the current search is wonderful.

Franklin T. Adams-Watters

-----Original Message-----
From: Charles Greathouse <charles.greathouse at case.edu>
To: Sequence Fanatics Discussion list <seqfan at list.seqfan.eu>
Sent: Wed, Apr 30, 2014 10:20 pm
Subject: [seqfan] Re: Searches


I think the current search is wonderful -- fast and expressive. Stemming
helps me much more often than it hurts. Still, there are times that I 
want
to do more powerful searches, like unstemmed text or even regular
expressions. Maybe some day...

Charles Greathouse
Analyst/Programmer
Case Western Reserve University


On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 6:25 PM, Neil Sloane <njasloane at gmail.com> 
wrote:

> Franklin, the reason for those false matches
> is that Russ's bucket system for doing searches
> drops suffixes (so graph and graphs, say, are
> considered equivalent). I think it
> would take a lot of work to refine this.
> The present system works beautifully, IMHO,
> although I agree that there are times when you get false matches
> which can be frustrating.
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 5:18 PM, <franktaw at netscape.net> wrote:
>
> > In my opinion, the current search engine is too ambitious in finding
> > similar words when searching. When doing a search that includes
> "identity",
> > I don't want "identical" to be considered a match.
> >
> > Franklin T. Adams-Watters
> >
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