[Sigia-l] Quintura

[David Malouf]

I see it solving the problem associated with the narrowness (and
sometimes broadness) of what we type into a search engine.

The system seems to bring a thesaurus support mechanism into doing
searches. So if I type "house" it allows me to choose synonyms based
on "closeness" of meaning which are visually presented based on
distance as facets for the initial search I typed into the text field.

It assumes that when I type house I may also want to see results for
"home", "building" "cape cod" " single story ranch" "dwelling" "real
estate" etc.

Are there other ways to visualize this? Maybe. I find this to be a bit
different than just pure faceted search ala Flamenco or Vivisimo (sp?)
b/c it adds the element of a thesaurus and turns those synonyms into a
new level of facets. What would be interesting is to layer both the
metadata/content facets with the thesaurus facets and churn out a
collection of results that way, maybe adding a layer of depth ala the
"visual thesaurus" that this doesn't visualize nearly as well.

I'm assuming the larger a word/phrase is the more results it has.

-- dave

On 2/26/07, Ziya Oz <listera at earthlink.net> wrote:
> What problem does this solve?
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