How does query expansion/synonyms affect query result scoring?

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How does query expansion/synonyms affect query result scoring? #14

Open hoelzro opened 6 years ago

hoelzro commented 6 years ago

Also note that synonyms don't seem to work properly (for example, TW and TiddlyWiki)

hoelzro commented 6 years ago

Some other thoughts about synonyms:

What about foxes and vixens? How is this handled?
Check how multi-word synonyms affect scoring

hoelzro commented 6 years ago

I'm going to park this for now - I did a lot of investigation, but since synonyms are experimental and I've been delaying the release for this one issue, I'd rather punt until a later release to get 1.1.0 out the door.