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[Req] Thesaurus for keyword search
« on: April 09, 2003, 11:05:30 PM »
Hi,

on my site all images have keywords attached. One problem with searching by keywords is always that it's difficult to predict what users are actually searching for. Also spelling can be a problem. To minimize the risk of a user not being able to find an image we assign sort of redundant keywords ("Alsterfleet" as well as "Alster-Fleet" - both ways are correct in German).

What I"d like to have is a table where I put in the keyword I've used on one side and all keywords that mean the same on the other side. If a user now searches for an image the system first looks up this table to check for which keyword it should actually look for.

Is this in some way understandable? And does someone maybe even have an idea how to tackle this?

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Bernd

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[Req] Thesaurus for keyword search
« Reply #1 on: April 09, 2003, 11:07:40 PM »
I think would be easier just use both keywords for the images
i.e.:
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Alsterfleet Alster-Fleet
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