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[platform-help-dev] "" - exact search?

The search query syntax in Eclipse 2.0 supports quoted expressions.  For
example, one might write a query
"compiling a project"
However, the interpretation of the quotation is not the exact match for the
words inside the quoted part.  The quoted part of the query is analyzed by
the language analyzer like any other part of the query.  Using our analyzer
for English that removes stop words and performs stemming, the search
results might return documents that contain:
"compile projects"
"compiling a project"
In Eclipse 2.0, the meaning of quotation marks in a query is a phrase
search (where words have to occur in the specified order), but it is not an
exact search.  I see increasing number of people confused by stemming,
especially when this is applied to the words inside quotes.  I think it is
worth pursuing a path of changing the semantic of quotation marks to mean
exact search.  The query syntax would remain unchanged, but quotation would
mean exact search.

Does everybody agree that this should be the direction that the
implementation should follow, or is there much value in the phrase search
that is performed by help system now?

Konrad Kolosowski
Eclipse Help System



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