[Sigia-l] RE: using thesauri to improve search

[Ziya Oz]

"Sanchez, Mario" wrote:

> You have several discrete challenges - all associated with the major goal of
> "understanding what the user wants." In this example, you need to determine
> that a search for "drug addicted teens" should find items that are
> cross-sected by the facets "drug addiction" and "adolescents."

Of course, if the engine were to consider all the permutations for all
entries, it could get very complex very quickly:

ABCD, A"BCD", "AB"CD,"ABC"D...
Add AND/OR permutations for each
Add stemming (potentially) for each
Add synonyms (potentially) for each
Etc

Cross compare them and you got a mess. Completely automating this stuff is
really tough.

Best,

Ziya