> -----Original Message----- > From: Jim Davis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2007 1:55 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: RE: Conceptual Search against Database(s) > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: d l [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2007 11:19 AM > > To: CF-Talk > > Subject: Re: Conceptual Search against Database(s) > > > > > On Thursday 29 Nov 2007, d l wrote: > > > > "my own set of domain knowledge / weightings " > > > > Sure, imho, the "key word" here is "good enough", and probably cost > > > > effective as well. > > > > > > Maybe. > > > But for one site 'energy' bringing back 'geothermal' may be OK, but > > on > > > another > > > site 'zen' would be a much better choice. > > Scientific American has a great article this month about how the Semantic > Web could direct searches in just that kind of way. You can buy the issue > online here: > > http://www.sciamdigital.com/index.cfm?fa=Products.ViewIssuePreview&ARTICLE > ID > _CHAR=3734452E-3048-8A5E-1068474BA8D770C8 > > The example they use is "Search for Sitcoms set in New York City" and > explode that out to three clauses. "Sitcoms" get matched "Television > Show", > "TV" and many other things. "Set in" equates to "Takes place in", > "located", etc and "New York City" is an amalgamation of neighborhoods, > nicknames and the like. > > It's easy to over-simplify and damn the concept but it truly is > interesting. > > However it does reinforce a fundamental concept: truly useful searching > results from cooperation between the search engine and the content owners. > Content scanners like we have today (Google, Verity, etc) work wonders but > are always going to be hamstrung by the lack of contextual, > machine-understandable information. > > Of course users also need to be involved. As you've inferred nearly any > search which lacks a domain context has the potential to be poor. > > Jim Davis > >
I don't know much about conceptual search myself, but I know that there are a lot of add-on available for Lucene to do all sorts of cool stuff. I would ask on their mailing list and see if anyone's tackled the problem. I believe there have things like wordnet plugin so you can probably get synonyms, etc. Russ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| ColdFusion 8 - Build next generation apps today, with easy PDF and Ajax features - download now http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/coldfusion/cf8_beta_whatsnew_052907.pdf Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:293986 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
