mswinehart
commented
6 months ago Keeping a running log of how this performs against Steph B's QA expertise
Yoon Ha Lee helpdesk: https://dev.aadl.org/search/catalog/Yoon%20Ha%20Lee
Love times infinity https://dev.aadl.org/search/catalog/Love%20Times%20Infinity
taleon
This addresses the issue of queries composed of multiple short words and queries against titles composed of the same returning poor results. It handles ranking of those items much better when the matches are very close or exact, and it prunes a lot of extraneous stuff that was often showing up. The single multi_match ended up a bit more generous with coincidental prefixes and short words than intended. This adds additional clauses to even that out.
There are comments in the file for the new bits for future reference.
Definitely changes results, so you can decide whether it’s worth putting this out in the lead up to summer game. But it’s active on the dev site for testing & feedback in the meantime. Here are some examples using recent helpdesks.
no mas bebes Before: https://aadl.org/search/catalog/no%20mas%20bebes After: https://dev.aadl.org/search/catalog/no%20mas%20bebes
a to z mysteries Before: https://aadl.org/search/catalog/a%20to%20z%20mysteries After: https://dev.aadl.org/search/catalog/a%20to%20z%20mysteries
plan b lamott Before: https://aadl.org/search/catalog/plan%20b%20lamott After: https://dev.aadl.org/search/catalog/Plan%20b%20lamott
Some previous problem cases are below. All still work, but the results have definitely been trimmed in some cases (for the better I think). Common words like “the” aren’t confusing results anymore.
Breaking free of child(hood) anxiety https://dev.aadl.org/search/catalog/breaking%20free%20of%20childhood%20anxiety
The inside game https://dev.aadl.org/search/catalog/the%20inside%20game
Heaven and earth grocery store https://dev.aadl.org/search/catalog/heaven%20and%20earth%20grocery%20store Critter club volume 11 https://dev.aadl.org/search/catalog/critter%20club%20volume%2011