Bill Moseley scribbled on 10/5/06 10:38 AM:
> On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 07:19:47AM -0700, Peter Karman wrote:
>> not strictly Swish-related, but wondering how others of you implement the 'did 
>> you mean...' feature in their web search apps. Do you use a custom thesaurus? 
>> Dictionary? etc.
> 
> I've done a dictionary lookup before using Text::Aspell.  I created a
> dictionary for each meta name so only words in the index would be
> returned in spelling suggestions.
> 

cool. thanks, Bill.

if I'm reading correctly, this only works for words based on spelling, yes? So 
if a user searched for 'food' it wouldn't suggest 'sustenance' or 'nourishment'.

good pointers about using metanames and the parsed words.

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