Esa Ahola (esa@cyclone.mindspring.com)
Wed, 17 Dec 1997 14:22:43 -0500 (EST)
On Thu, 11 Dec 1997, Esa Ahola wrote:
> Haven't heard back from you; that's quite okay, just wanted to make sure
> mail was not getting lost in one direction or another.
If you have sent me mail, I have received none of it. :-\ But I see that
you (rodan.contigo.com?) paid a short visit to my test page.
I have now upgraded my "production" site
http://mercedes.mindspring.com/mercedes/archives/mq.html
to support prefix matching. It uses
exact:1 endings:0.8 synonyms:0.7 prefix:0.5
I have also enhanced the prefix feature to support either explicit
or implicit prefix matching:
- If you specify a prefix match character in the configuration
file, only words that end in the match character are processed.
- Otherwise, all words that are at least minimum_prefix_length
characters long are automatically prefix matched.
What do you think?
I ended up introducing the following configuration variables and
their defaults:
minimum_prefix_length: 1
prefix_match_character: "*"
max_prefix_matches 1000
I'd welcome some review and comment of the diffs, and a fellow in
the Netherlands has asked for a copy.
-- Esa Ahola esa@cyclone.mindspring.com
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