Date:Thu, 7 Oct 2004 20:37:00 +0100
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From:"Matthew J. Dovey" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject:Re: Betr.: Acronyms
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Does this generalise? i.e. would a modifier for equivalents work here
for both cases
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson being equivalent to Lewis Carroll
XML being equivalent to eXtensible Markup Language
Etc.
Matthew
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> On Behalf Of Theo van Veen
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> Subject: Betr.: Acronyms
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> It is a little bit like name authorities in some bibliographic
> databases. If a name variant is found those systems present the result
> as if the main entry was searched. As a user I would prefer that being
> done automatically. If your system knows XML --> Extensible Markup
> Language does a user has to request cql.expand specifically to get the
> expanded version?
>
> Theo
>
>
> >>> [log in to unmask] 7-10-04 13:23:46 >>>
> Say I have the string:
> "XML in a Nutshell"
> and I have a system that knows XML --> Extensible Markup Language
>
> If a user searches for "Markup Language" then I should return a hit?
> With Prox, I should match "Language in" as well as "XML in"?
>
> Then if I add in stemming, and someone searches for "extend", I'd also
> generate a hit. Is acronym/abbreviation expansion sufficiently
> important
> to warrant a relation modifier as per cql.stem ? cql.expand ?
>
> Rob
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