RE: Limiting a Search by URL

Just to be sure I'm understanding this . . .

There are a lot of searches both in Bath and in the US National Profile
that use the unanchored phrase search.  So, basically, the people creating
those profiles are part of the community that see a phrase as a word list.
Is that right?

If so, it seems that the working definition of a "phrase" has changed -- or
at least become more specific during the process of creating these
profiles.  So to use it in the same way here as other comparable searches
doesn't seem to be out of place.

Christine Peterson
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Peterson/Amigos [mailto:peterson@amigos.org]
> Sent: Friday, January 24, 2003 6:26 PM
>
> I had a couple of people tell me that their ILS already does
> this by using an unanchored phrase search.  I believe the
> attribute combination for that would be:
> Use: 1032 (Doc-id)
> Relation: 3 (equal)
> Position: 3 (any position in field)
> Structure: 1 (phrase)
> Truncation: 100 (Do not truncate)
> Completeness: 1 (Incomplete subfield)
>
> So, assuming the search term "nasa.gov," wouldn't you have to use
> truncation in order to get either of the results above?  I'm
> assuming that "nasa.gov" is a phrase that is being searched.
> Would I receive the match "www.nasa.gov?"

I'm afraid this is a perfect example of the crummy semantics we've assigned
to our bib-1 structure attributes.  That particular community thinks that a
phrase is a word list.  They think a phrase is a list of words with an
implicit operator between then; hence the "do not truncate" attribute.

Ralph

Received on Monday, 27 January 2003 13:19:08 UTC