Hi Robert,
Currently, partial query match is not supported. Our main concern was
displaying search results for the root worss in the query(installing -
> install), because that support is highly needed for a search
engine. But a little thinking about partial matching suggested that
this *might* be possible to do it by some JavaScripting. Have to think
it through!
Wildcard searching is just a extended version of this. It's fine if
David plans to put in to the next year, but I'll see what I can do for
it.
And does supporting for searches like 'nstall' is really needed? I
think usage of that kind of feature is very less and would not worth
the effort we put in to it!
Regards,
--Kasun
Sent from my iPhone
On 12 Aug 2010, at 08:26 PM, "Cramer, David W (David)" <
> wrote:
> Hi Robert,
> Kasun knows more about the details of the stemmer, but I can point
> you to the documentation for the porter stemmer we used:
>
> http://snowball.tartarus.org/algorithms/porter/stemmer.html
>
> Currently, English, French, and German are supported.
>
> You are correct search does not support wildcards in searches, and I
> don't believe that
> the algorithm would return results with the same base but different
> prefixes (i.e. searching for "inhibit" won't show pages with
> "exhibit"), but I think that's normal for any search engine.
>
> I'll add "Support wildcards in query string" to the list of future
> features. I thought I had added it there already but I see now that
> it's not listed.
>
> Thanks,
> David
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert Fekete [mailto:]
> Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2010 7:14 AM
> To:
> Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] Help needed testing CJK search support
> in webhelp
>
> Hi David,
>
> First of all, thank you for both of you for your work, it looks very
> promising!
> I have a few questions about how search and stemming works:
> - Is it possible to add partial matches to the search results? For
> example, now
> if you search for install, installing, or installed, the same
> results are
> returned (correctly), because these words all come from install. But
> if you
> don't type the entire word (say, only 'inst'), there aren't any
> results.
> - Am I right that the search engine does prefix-only matches?
> (nstall, *nstall,
> etc. does not work)
>
> Regards,
>
> Robert
>
>
>
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