[SPTUsers] SPT Search results

[Michael McFadden]

Just two more questions.
Are there any stop words file to not allow words like "a" "to" "and" etc to
mess up the relevance of a search?  Also is there a way to setup synonyms so
that for example a search for the word "church" would also return results
with "synagogue" or "cathedral"?

On Wed, Apr 09, at 12:34:12PM, Michael McFadden wrote:
> It doesn't appear that SPT search results are being ranked.  Is this true?
> I would expect that the first result returned from a search would for
> example have more occurrences of the word that was searched for.  Also
> documents further down the list would have less occurrences.

   Search results are ranked by relevance in SPT.  Each result is assigned
   a score based on the number of times each search term appeared in the
   record and where it appeared, and then the results are listed in order
   of descending scores.  In calculating the score, the values associated
   with where each term appears is weighted according to the search weights
   defined in the Metadata Field Editor (default values:  Title=5,
Creator=3,
   Description=1, etc).

   So, yes, SPT does attempt to rank the search results according to their
   relevance to the search terms entered.

   Ed



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