[seqfan] Re: Searches

[John W. Nicholson]

Why not have an option as to turn stemming off?


 
John W. Nicholson
On Wednesday, April 30, 2014 10:32 PM, "franktaw at netscape.net" <franktaw at netscape.net> wrote:
 
I think the stemming hurts me about as often as it helps.
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>But, yes, the current search is wonderful.
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>Franklin T. Adams-Watters
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>From: Charles Greathouse <charles.greathouse at case.edu>
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>Subject: [seqfan] Re: Searches
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>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...
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>Charles Greathouse
>Analyst/Programmer
>Case Western Reserve University
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>On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 6:25 PM, Neil Sloane <njasloane at gmail.com> 
>wrote:
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>> 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.
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>> On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 5:18 PM, <franktaw at netscape.net> wrote:
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>> > 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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