[Koha-devel] searching for phrases

[Ian Walls]

It seems like it might be a good idea to parse the search string
provided by the user (in "Googlese") into Zebra's prefix system.  Not
only could we handle phrase searching, but we could do a host of other
translations (&'s give us some escapement craziness, if I recall).  We
could also do things like converting ISBN-10's in ISBN-13's or vice
versa.  It could even be piped into the administrative area to let
people turn on and off translations, and make it easy to develop new
ones (they'd basically be regex).

Sounds like an RFC to write up for 3.4!


-Ian

On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 12:53 PM, Cindy Murdock Ames <cmurdock at ccfls.org> wrote:
> Hmm, I see that you can do a keyword phrase search with kw,phr= or a
> title phrase search with ti,phr=.  Cool!  I wonder, could a bit of code
> be added to the search module to automatically translate a string in
> quotes to one of those?
>
> Cindy
>
> Cindy Murdock Ames wrote:
>> Thanks, Nicole.  I couldn't see it because my syspref for
>> "expandedSearchOption" was set to "don't show".  And thanks for the link
>> to the search docs...I didn't know about the search prefixes.  :)
>>
>> I agree with Kyle, though...it would be nice if we could do phrase
>> searching with quotes.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Cindy
>>
>>
>>
>> Nicole Engard wrote:
>>
>>> On your advanced search page click 'More Options' and then you'll see
>>> the Title Phrase option again.  Also the searching docs are here:
>>> http://koha-community.org/documentation/3-2-manual/?ch=c7881
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> Nicole
>>>
>>> On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 11:00 AM, Cindy Murdock Ames <cmurdock at ccfls.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> Is there a way to search for phrases in the Koha catalog, or to make
>>>> Koha rank phrases higher than other search results by default?  For
>>>> example, if I search for "world book", in the expectation of finding
>>>> World Book Encyclopedia, I get a vast number of search results (about
>>>> 3,400), because the words "world" and "book" are apparently fairly
>>>> common in my MARC records.  I'm using 3.2 alpha with zebra, with
>>>> approximately 350,000 records.  There used to be a title phrase search
>>>> option in the advanced search, but that doesn't seem to be there anymore.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks!
>>>> Cindy
>>>>
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