On 29.10.2006, at 22:44, Clare wrote: > Can anyone help me with doing searches using thesaurus. > > I really want to do searches that are simple that I make up. For > example, a search on "TV" will bring back results that include > "Television" and vice versa.
I'm not quite sure if I get the point of your question. Are you looking for a thesaurus dictionary or a concept of implementing a thesaurus based search with Ferret? There are several thesauri available for download. WordNet, for example: http://www.semanticweb.org/library/ These thesauri are in RDF format which is XML. You could parse an RDF file and write it to a database or generate a huge Ruby hash for fast lookup. You could even use a separate Ferret index as your thesaurus database. Implementing the search is fairly easy. Look up a search term in the thesaurus and use the synonyms to build the actual query for Ferret. Cheers, Andy _______________________________________________ Ferret-talk mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ferret-talk
