Re: [MORG] Review: draft-ietf-morg-fuzzy-search-02

[Timo Sirainen <[e-mail]>]

On Sun, 2010-08-01 at 14:56 +0200, Cyrus Daboo wrote:

> >> 6) Do clients need to care that the FUZZY search key is not
> >> distributive, e.g.:
> >>
> >> FUZZY OR SUBJECT x SUBJECT y != OR FUZZY SUBJECT x FUZZY SUBJECT y
> >
> > I agree with Barry, those are the same. Added example:
> 
> I am not totally convinced. My point is how a server deals with two FUZZY's 
> - does it somehow treats those as one, does it do the two separately (as 
> per the OR example right-hand side) and then combine relevance in some 
> fashion for the aggregate? 

"Implementation-determined"? :)

> How does you server handle multiple FUZZY's?

I haven't actually implemented FUZZY yet, only the relevancy parts of it
as part of other non-standard search keys. Looking at the code, it
doesn't handle scores for multiple fuzzy searches well at all, simply
drops the earlier searches' scores..

> > FUZZY is applied to all search keys when parenthesis or OR is used. For
> > example in this search query everything is matched fuzzily:
> >
> >  C: A03 SEARCH FUZZY OR (SUBJECT work FROM [e-mail]) SUBJECT home
> >  S: * SEARCH 2 5
> >  S: A03 OK Search completed.
> 
> Well that automatically falls out from the syntax since "OR" is itself a 
> search-key that is the argument for FUZZY.

So no point in having that example?