[seqfan] Re: Searches

[Charles Greathouse]

It's not technically possible at the moment -- as I understand it only one
searchable database has been built and it's already Porter-stemmed. The
other information is in a (relatively) inaccessible database format. You
might be able to construct a substring search for a single field, though.

Charles Greathouse
Analyst/Programmer
Case Western Reserve University


On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 3:28 PM, John W. Nicholson <reddwarf2956 at yahoo.com>wrote:

> Why not have an option as to turn stemming off?
>
>
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> 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.
> >
> >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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