RE: Advanced Keyword Search 'caveat'

["Lois Smith" <smithl@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I tried to replicate some of the searches given as examples below. It
appears to me as if some of these libraries have chosen not to index the 100
and 700 fields in the Keyword index.  Therefore, the hits retrieved by
keyword searching contain "Dvorak" in the notes fields, not in the author
(100,700) fields, and one would expect greatly different results.  Since
each library chooses how it will do its keyword indexing, the results will
vary a lot from one library to another.

If this is not the correct interpretation, and there really is a problem
with normalization of search terms, would those of you who have installed
Advanced Keyword Searching please let us know?  I am ready to have AVS
installed this week and would certainly like to know about such a problem
prior to installation.

Lois Smith
Catalog/System Librarian
Geisler Library
Central College
Pella, IA  50219
641-628-5158
smithl@xxxxxxxxxx

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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.

Cheryl Gowing

From:	Lisa Philpott [mailto:philpott@xxxxxxxxxx]
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Sent:	Thursday, August 10, 2000 6:37 PM
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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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