[seqfan] Re: Searches

[Charles Greathouse]

Of course that conflicts with the default meaning of "match these, in
order, with stemming".

Charles Greathouse
Analyst/Programmer
Case Western Reserve University


On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 11:03 AM, Allan Wechsler <acwacw at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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