[htdig3-dev] Searching phrase containing apostrophe


Subject: [htdig3-dev] Searching phrase containing apostrophe
From: Terry Luedtke (LuedtkT@mail.nlm.nih.gov)
Date: Fri Apr 14 2000 - 13:28:25 PDT


Hello,

I have beta 2 here and am looking at the new features. I tested the phrase "parkinson's disease" and got some odd results. I think the phrase code isn't handling the apostrophe properly.

Match counts:

205 for "parkinson's disease"
  7 for "parkinsons disease"
  0 for "parkinson's"
  7 for "parkinsons"
205 for "disease"
  7 for parkinson's

I'm guessing that the parser doesn't take out the apostrophe within a phrase so it doesn't match any words, but then why does "parkinson's disease" match all the disease pages? Any ideas?

Terry Luedtke
National Library of Medicine

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