[Koha-devel] searching for phrases

[Nicole Engard]

I like the idea that developers have had on the Koha IRC chanel - to
replace Zebra is Solr -- that would probably solve this problem as
well!

Nicole

On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 8:19 AM, Ian Walls
<ian.walls at bywatersolutions.com> wrote:
> 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
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>>>> Cindy Murdock Ames
>>>>> IT Services Director
>>>>> Meadville Public Library    | CCFLS
>>>>> http://meadvillelibrary.org | http://ccfls.org
>>>>>
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>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>> Cindy Murdock Ames
>> IT Services Director
>> Meadville Public Library    | CCFLS
>> http://meadvillelibrary.org | http://ccfls.org
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