Excerpts from Carl Lerche's message of Sun Jan 21 09:09:59 -0800 2007: > Worst case scenario, I could probably do some preprocessing to the > search queries to expand "plumber" or "driving" to a query that > includes both stems (for example expand the query for plumber to > "plumber plumb")
You can either do query expansion or you can modify the stemmer. Query expansion is probably a little easier to experiment with because you don't have to worry about reindexing, but it does come with a search-time cost which may or may not be negligible. (And it gets a little tricky with phrasal queries.) > I can add ranged parameters to the query and that will work, but is > that optimal? Hopefully I am making sense. I don't know for sure whether Ferret is sophisticated enough to optimize retrieval based on multiple ranges, but it may very well be. In any case, I think you're doing the right thing. -- William <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ Ferret-talk mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ferret-talk
