Re: Proximity searching in ConText

From: <JonnyA_at_my-dejanews.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 19:22:01 GMT
Message-ID: <6qveco$lhm$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>

In article <6pq1pj$sr$1_at_nnrp1.dejanews.com>, schect_at_my-dejanews.com wrote:
> We are evaluating the Oracle ConText cartridge as a free text search engine.
> The documentation indicates that one can perform proximity searching (two
> words within a specified number of words of each other). It does not appear
> that one can do in order proximity searches (the search terms must be in the
> oder specified). Consider the following scenario.

ConText lets you search on explicit phrases. If you can constrain the author's name to always appear in that format (last, first, middle), would that sort of search do the trick?

-Jon.
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Jon Atkinson * Senior Developer * Virtual Frontiers

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