Re: [htdig3-dev] Word distancing & external rating?


Subject: Re: [htdig3-dev] Word distancing & external rating?
From: Geoff Hutchison (ghutchis@wso.williams.edu)
Date: Thu Nov 25 1999 - 12:09:45 PST


At 10:57 AM -0800 11/25/99, Aaron Turner wrote:
>I know searching for phrases is going to be supported in 3.2, but I was
>wondering if there were any plans for rating hits based on word
>distancing. Example:

Plans? Yes, but if someone took charge of this it would be greatly
appreciated. I'm sure it would greatly improve scoring.

>I've been toying with this idea in a SQL database. It doesn't take long
>before you relalize to keep track of words up to a distance of 10 takes

I have good news for you. We simply store the location of the words.
And it doesn't require 20x the disk space. :-) In fact, another
developer is working on very significant compression.

-Geoff

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