Hi Roman,

At the moment the code expands the query according to what the 
Thesaurus.pm code does, which could be configured to do different things.

I have a dictionary file like:

elections : elections poll
district : district electorate

and when someone searchs on "northland" it gets mapped to "northland 
district electorate".

Let me explain some background.

I am working on the official New Zealand electoral commission website. 
In New Zealand we use different terminology than other countries, for 
example Australia (electorate -> district). The idea is to map the 
search words as above, in a configurable way. I have set it up so that 
the query mapping occours before passing into the main search routine. 
This means that the user gets to see what mapping has occoured.

I have tried to incorporate the code in the "Swish-e" way, as a 
configurable option. BTW, I like they way configuration files are 
essentially Perl hashs. No need to learn a seperate configuration 
language :-)


The "best-docs" approach might be good as well actually. I'll have a 
look on the list. Thanks for the tip.


Finlay



Roman Chyla wrote:

>hi Finlay,
>
>I am new to theseaurus-in-swish idea. Does your thesaurus expand query 
>and show different results? Stating for example
>
>I searched for "query"
>.
>this was found as a similar "term"
>this was found as a "parent term"
>or do you want to repeat searching with this "subordinate term" ?
>
>whatever it does, it might be very useful
>
>Somewhere, in this list, was discussion about checking query words 
>against a prepared list of best-docs, ie. searching for "search engine" 
>in index of apache documentation, will also return a link to swish-e 
>doc, even though the doc was not in the indexed docs itself
>
>roman
>
>
>Finlay Thompson wrote:
>
> > Hi Everyone
> >
> > Im new to this list, and to swish-e in general.
> >
> > I have implemented some basic Thesaurus code, and patched it into the 
>swish.cgi script.
> >
> > Has anyone else done this sort of thing ?
> >
> > The swishcgi.conf file has an extra setting like:
> >
> >     thesaurus => {
> >         package  => 'SWISH::Thesaurus',
> >     },
> >
> > and the query words are replaced using code:
> >
> >     if (my $thesaurus = $self->config('thesaurus')) {
> >         my $thesaurus_object = $thesaurus->{package}->new();
> >         $query = $thesaurus_object->expand_query($query) if 
>$thesaurus_object;;
> >     }
> >
> >
> > I would welcome any comments, suggestions.
> >
> > Finlay
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>Finlay Thompson wrote:
>  
>
>>Hi Everyone
>>
>>Im new to this list, and to swish-e in general.
>>
>>I have implemented some basic Thesaurus code, and patched it into the 
>>swish.cgi script.
>>
>>Has anyone else done this sort of thing ?
>>
>>The swishcgi.conf file has an extra setting like:
>>
>>    thesaurus => {
>>        package  => 'SWISH::Thesaurus',
>>    },
>>
>>and the query words are replaced using code:
>>
>>    if (my $thesaurus = $self->config('thesaurus')) {
>>        my $thesaurus_object = $thesaurus->{package}->new();
>>        $query = $thesaurus_object->expand_query($query) if 
>>$thesaurus_object;;
>>    }
>>
>>
>>I would welcome any comments, suggestions.
>>
>>Finlay
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>    
>>