Re: Accents, endings and chaining

FYI:
	I have written accent stripping code that I'd be happy to add....

	We'll also have a Unicode version soon ;-)

Thanks


On Sat, 5 Jun 2004, Lachlan Andrew wrote:

> Greetings Gilles,
>
> As I understand Dominique's problem, it is not an issue of chaining
> the "accents" fuzzy rule with the "endings" fuzzy rule.  He is
> searching for a word with an accent.  If it matches a word in the
> database with an accent, then it should not need a fuzzy algorithm to
> register a match.  I thought that "accents" causes "acouphène" to
> match "acouphene" (without the accend).
>
> Dominique, could you confirm that both the document and the query have
> an accent?  If that is the case, then we *may* be able to fix this
> problem without needing to chain fuzzy rules.
>
> Cheers,
> Lachlan
>
> On Thu, 3 Jun 2004 02:07 am, Gilles Detillieux wrote:
> > Dominique had written:
> > > > 3- I have a problem with the accent and plurials.
> > > >
> > > > If a search for "herbe" or "herbes", no problems.  But, if the
> > > > works have an accent, like "acouphène", htdig have a problem to
> > > > find the plural.
> > > >
> > > > herbe: 136 results
> > > > herbes: 136 results
> > > >
> > > > acouphène:   6 results
> > > > acouphènes:  25 results
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > search_algorithm:       exact:1 endings:1 prefix:1 accent:1
> > > > synonyms:0,5
> >
> > htsearch does not yet support chaining of fuzzy match algorithms,
> > so the results of the accents algorithms don't have the endings
> > algorithm applied to them (nor vice-versa).
>
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