FW: Advanced Keyword Search 'caveat'

[Cheryl Gowing <cgowing@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi:

Lisa has given me permission to forward her posting from the III Music Users
Listserv.   I do not recall any previous mention of this problem with AVS,
which has implications beyond retrieving music materials.

I would be curious to know if the libraries who have now implemented AVS
find similar results.

thanks, cheryl

Cheryl Gowing				
Assistant University Librarian,
Technical Services & ILS Operations
Richter Library
University of Miami
1300 Memorial Dr.
Coral Gables, FL  33124-0320

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-----Original Message-----
From:	Lisa Philpott [mailto:philpott@xxxxxxxxxx]
<mailto:[mailto:philpott@xxxxxxxxxx]> 
Sent:	Thursday, August 10, 2000 6:37 PM
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<mailto:imug-l@xxxxxxxxxx;>  wguthrie@xxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:wguthrie@xxxxxxxxxx> 
Subject:	Advanced Keyword Search 'caveat'

Dear colleagues,

We're still wrestling with our implementation of Advanced Keyword Search
here at UWO.  I've encountered a significant retrieval problem, which seems
to be endemic (I've duplicated my search at Ohio State, Washington, and
OhioLink), and it involves diacritics.  Simple accents, as in Fauré, seem to
be searchable (and display "without highlighting" in the result-list), but
more complex ones are a definite problem...they simply CANNOT BE FOUND via
AKS! [Karlowicz, Lutoslawski, Dvorak,etc.] 
So...we're planning on retaining our WORD search until this  problem is
fixed (the other sites have already discontinued their WORD search option,
but I included our results as a matter of interest).  My Dvorak results were
as follow:
UWO:
Dvorak in AKS  = 109 'hits'
Dvorak in WORD = 777
Dvorak in AUT  = 1,183
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Ohio State:
Dvorak in AKS  = 108 
Dvorak in AUT  - 695
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Washington:
Dvorak in AKS  = 125
Dvorak in AUT  = 493
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OhioLink:
Dvorak in AKS  = 733
Dvorak in AUT  = 3,842
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Alternately, try a "proximity search".  (The results are somewhat alarming!)
	dvorak antonin
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				BTW,
Karlowicz *was* findable, by using TWO ?? (internal character truncation
symbols):  
	Kar??owicz
This leads us to think that the "Polish L" is indexed as TWO
characters...but similar experimentations with Dvorak did not produce a
"search result."
	
	Lisa
	Lisa Philpott
	Music Library
	U of Western Ontario
	London, ON, CANADA  N6A 3K7
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