<wjhon...@aol.com> wrote in message news:cfe.5d50bcc3.37c1a...@aol.com... > In a message dated 8/22/2009 10:56:20 AM Pacific Daylight Time, > dger...@gmail.com writes: > > >> Because there is no need to determine what the meaning of >> the particular term or keyword is, the pages it returns generally deal >> with the same concept or concepts that you entered. For instance, if >> you enter "Flower" and "Bee", it will find pages where these two >> concepts overlap - those are pages about pollination.>> > ------------------- > > This seems big to me. > It's creating, in a mindless way, semantic relationships between keywords.
The search for "bees" and "flowers" suggests "pollination". I do not see anything mindless about that. That is a human association. In another one, honey comes from sap in flowers, and gets flavour from them. So, the idea is to rank words-connecting-each higher than the AND-search alone, while the AND-search gets a higher rank than the OR-search. Works for me. You can get similar results on web pages if users do a good job of filling out descriptions, keywords, classification, and title tags. Pollination and honey should be at the top. > This has been thought about for a long time it seems, but no one has > really > solved the annoying issue of how to avoid most false positives. I don't > think you can avoid them all because English is so ambiguous but the use > of > cross-links is a major leap forward. > > Very few people are going to link-up concepts that are basely minor, but > scan all pages for the links highlights the semantic connetions between > concepts. You could even take it one step further, use the semantic web > to "point > out" semantic connections that are not directly obvious. Such as a leap > from beekeeper to honeycomb. Try to do that using Google. You get > thousands > of bad hits before you get the one good one. > > Search for "Hillbillies" and "Movie", using a semantic web you get the > exact hit you want. > > W.J. > > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l