[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] keyword searching question

[Soulliere, Robert]

I found this from Dan Scott's blog most helpful for tweaking relevancy for keyword searches:
http://coffeecode.net/archives/218-Adjusting-relevancy-rankings-in-Evergreen-1.6,-some-explorations.html

I also added the content to the documentation:
http://libdog.mohawkcollege.ca/evergreen_documentation/draft/html/index.html
under "Adjusting Search Relevancy Rankings"


Robert

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From: open-ils-general-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org [open-ils-general-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Hardy, Elaine [ehardy at georgialibraries.org]
Sent: September 14, 2010 9:22 AM
To: Evergreen Discussion Group
Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] keyword searching question

Gordana,

A nontechnical explanation -- pretty much every field, even the 050. Which can mean some odd results since the search can return titles where the term retrieved is across two subfields --  the end of one and the beginning of another (rare, but it does happen, unfortunately I don't remember an example). A recent keyword search I did in the PINES catalog to find "hitory" returned records with the Japanese name "Hitori".

It can take a little digging to find out why a record was returned since the keyword search brings up things like "hitori" for "hitory" (matches exactly sometimes helps).



Elaine
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From: "Chris Sharp" <csharp at georgialibraries.org>
To: "Evergreen Discussion Group" <open-ils-general at list.georgialibraries.org>
Sent: Monday, September 13, 2010 7:32:39 PM
Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] keyword searching question

Hi Gordana,

This is a highly technical post, but explains what goes into Evergreen searching:

http://open-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=documentation:technical:search_grammar

You might want to read the blog post that Mike Rylander wrote about indexing as well:

http://evergreen-ils.org/blog/?p=410

Hope that's helpful!

Chris

Chris Sharp
PINES Program Manager
Georgia Public Library Service
1800 Century Place, Suite 150
Atlanta, Georgia 30345
(404) 235-7147
csharp at georgialibraries.org
http://pines.georgialibraries.org/

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Gordana Vitez" <gvitez at niagaracollege.ca>
> To: open-ils-general at list.georgialibraries.org
> Sent: Monday, September 13, 2010 4:53:35 PM
> Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] keyword searching question
> Hi everyone,
>
> We're having some problems trying to figure out exactly what is being
> searched when one does a keyword search. The results we're getting
> back aren't really making sense. Can anyone tell us which fields are
> searched?
>
> Thanks!
> Gordana
>
> Gordana Vitez
> Niagara College Libraries
> Welland Campus
> 300 Woodlawn Rd
> Welland Ontario
> L3C 7L3
> Phone: (905) 735 2211 ext 7404
> Fax: (905) 736 6021
> gvitez at niagaracollege.ca

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