[Perlfect-search] Synonyms?

[John]

If a fuzzy search is indeed what you are after, as Jerrad Pierce is suggesting, 
you might want to try to implement it the following way, which is not as 
resource-intensive:

Whenever the user enters a non-existent term (which most misspellings turn out 
to be) simply do a fuzzy search for similar terms to suggest to use instead, 
without actually doing a search Eg:

"the term ..... does not occur anywhere in our pages and gave 0 hits. Did you 
mean .... ?"

This should be fairly easy to implement, I think. Some time ago, I wrote a 
small routine to do the fuzzy searching in the term list, but I haven't put it 
to use yet.


Quoting James Robertson <jamesr@steptwo.com.au>:

> Hi all,
> 
> We've just implemented logging using PerlFect
> Search, and are now generating two separate
> reports:
> 
> * Most popular searches
> * Failed search terms
> 
> The second report has highlighted that visitors
> are mis-typing quite a few searches, or are
> using a range of terms for the same thing.
> 
> What we would like to do is implement a
> "synonyms list", so that if a visitor uses
> one term, it also matches documents containing
> its synonyms.
> 
> Has anyone done this using PerlFect?
> Any advice?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> James
> 
> -------------------------
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> 
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