: Agreed, but best match is not ONLY about keywords. Here is where the
: system developer can provide extra intelligence by doing query
: re-writing.
I finally got a chance to read through the URL (disclaimer: i do not have
"a basic working knowledge of Oracle Text, such as the operators used in
On 4/10/07 10:38 AM, "J. Delgado" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I think you have something personal against Oracle... Hey I have no
> interest in defending Oracle, but this no hack.
It's true, I don't have much respect for Oracle's text search.
When I was working on enterprise search, we never rea
See my comments below.
2007/4/10, Walter Underwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
On 4/10/07 10:06 AM, "J. Delgado" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Progressive relaxation, at least as Oracle has defined it, is a
> flexible, developer defined series of queries that are efficiently
> executed in progression a
It looks only a handful of people actually looked at the link
provided. Indeed, it is hard to let the engine "come up" with a series
of queries that range from the most restrictive to the less
restrictive and still provides the best relevance. The problem is even
worse if what is relevant for one
On 4/10/07 10:06 AM, "J. Delgado" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Progressive relaxation, at least as Oracle has defined it, is a
> flexible, developer defined series of queries that are efficiently
> executed in progression and in one trip to the engine, until minimum
> of hits required is satisfied
>From the name, I thought this was an adaptive precision scheme,
where the engine automatically tries broader matching if there
are no matches or just a few. We talked about doing that with
Ultraseek, but it is pretty tricky. Deciding when to adjust it is
harder than making it variable.
Instead, t
