Re: Finding OpenVMS Programming Examples in HP's Natural Language Search Engine

From: Michael Unger (spam.to.unger_at_spamgourmet.com)
Date: 07/21/05 

Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 20:46:14 +0200

On 2005-07-21 18:36, "Keith Cayemberg" wrote:

> Well, actually I am (now) getting many more results which are also
                                    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> mostly matching the query on following pages. However the search engine
                            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> is still substituting my keywords with synonyms. If you try the query
> above, the word "sample" is used as an equivalent for "Example", and
> also finds matches with "VMS" and "Sample", but no "Example" in it.

That is *exactly* my problem -- in most cases I get results ("hits") in
the 4- to 5-digit number range; I suspect the keywords concatenated by
"+" are interpreted as "contains *any* of the words" instead of
"contains *all* of the words".

> [...]
>
> I don't believe they have improved the interpretation of special
> characters like "$" "-" or "[" yet. If I try to find F$EDIT, the search
> engine uses EDIT and ignores the F and $ signs.

That's another problem ...

Michael 

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