On 01/02/11 10:09, Jizba, Richard wrote: > I have faculty and staff in our medical education department who want an > explanation of why their search for “wellness” seems to be picking up > records that do not contain the word anywhere in the full-text or > metadata. All they are seeing is the possibility that the search is also > retrieving just the word “well” or getting the phrase “well as”. These > folks are very unhappy because they have to do a major curriculum review. > > Is DSpace doing something by default to a search on the word “wellness” > or is my index messed up?
You don't provide a link to your repository, so I can't check, but almost certainly the culprit is stemming. See: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Stemming cheers stuart -- Stuart Yeates Library Technology Services http://www.victoria.ac.nz/library/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Special Offer-- Download ArcSight Logger for FREE (a $49 USD value)! Finally, a world-class log management solution at an even better price-free! Download using promo code Free_Logger_4_Dev2Dev. Offer expires February 28th, so secure your free ArcSight Logger TODAY! http://p.sf.net/sfu/arcsight-sfd2d _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech