in opac-search.pl, rel_3_0, there is a spelling suggestion when the search don't return any answer. It is based on some hardcoded database : DBI->connect( "DBI:mysql:suggest:66.213.78.76", "auth", "Free2cirC" ); Hehe, so it is. LibLime should be releasing a spellcheck service
I found : make_spellcheck_suggest.pl, in misc directory.
This script seems to have some problems : - it relies on marc_subfield_table & marc_word, that don't exist anymore - something is missing at line 97 : %tables variable is missing some tables descriptions (& a "; at the end...) - it works with soundex algorythm, that is very poor in french (it doesn't take care of accents & other french-specific things) Yep, I agree, it's not an ideal method for French and other libraries,
On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 05:33:39PM +0100, Paul POULAIN wrote: based on the API we wrote for English Koha catalogs soon -- it's one of those projects that's on the back burner. The data we've been collecting over the past few years has some pretty interesting uses, beyond Koha even. So I apologize for committing that LL-specific code. I'll fix it asap. though works quite well for English given a good data set.
opac-search.pl itself seems to have problems too : - $koha_spsuggest_insert is never called : is it a feature you have abandonned ? Yep, it's abandoned.
I was wondering : - if there is a more uptodate script that you forgot to commit, because this one can't work (I can't find the script in dev_week) ? Probably, I'll check.
- if we could use a specific soundex, depending on the language : there are some well working soundex_like algorythm for french & I bet other languages have their. That would require removing the str_cmp(soundex(suggestion),soundex(?)) from opac-search Yea, the whole thing needs to be revised and generalized with some new sysprefs for changing the settings, etc. I'll have a go at it this weekend.
- if we could use Aspell for spellchecking. I tried to investigate this option, it works very very well with common names, and we mostly want it to work for proper names like authors, so I think it's not something to investigate too deeply. Agreed.
- who will be the next french president, in 2007, May ? Hehe, well I hope I know the answer to who will not be the next US president ;-).
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