[seqfan] Re: Searches

[Allan Wechsler]

Permit the searcher, perhaps, to surround a search term with quotes to
indicate that it is to be searched for exactly as given. Google used to
work this way before it decided that it was always smarter than the user. I
don't know how hard it is to implement, though.



On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 9:33 AM, Charles Greathouse <
charles.greathouse at case.edu> wrote:

> 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?
> >
> >
> >
> > 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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