Date: Tue, 31 Mar 1998 10:28:43 +0200 From: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no> To: John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu>, Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au> Cc: freebsd-database@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Mailing list search interface Message-ID: <19980331102843.63722@follo.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980330173718.8294D-100000@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu>; from John Fieber on Mon, Mar 30, 1998 at 06:13:05PM -0500 References: <19980331082700.52299@welearn.com.au> <Pine.BSF.3.96.980330173718.8294D-100000@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu>
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On Mon, Mar 30, 1998 at 06:13:05PM -0500, John Fieber wrote: > Two possible things here. One, you may have hit some bugs in the > search engine with the "cannot and fork" query. The search > engine uses a vector space model with some boolean extensions > crudely patched in and the two mechanisms don't mesh that well. Does this mean my impression that my boolean queries "just don't work" is correct? I seem to always be retrieving half of what I thought I should. Oh, BTW: You're disipline is trivial - given unlimited CPU-power, unlimited bandwidth, and unlimited manpower to implement the solution, I'm quite certain I could make something much better than what is available today ;-) (The IR-model I hope will be able to interface-wise cope with large information spaces is a projection of a multi-variate analysis space, where you initially go by categories/keywords, and then do space-manipulations when you're somewhere in the vicinity of your target. Did I remember to repeat the 'unlimited resources' part?) Eivind. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-database" in the body of the message
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