Re: [Deskbar] Levenstein, Typo correction, Sorting items by usage

[Sebastian Pölsterl <marduk k-d-w org>]

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Fabrice Colin schrieb:
> On 10/4/07, Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen <mikkel kamstrup gmail com> wrote:
>> 2007/10/4, Fabrice Colin <fabrice colin gmail com>:
>>> Some back-ends are able to suggest terms, or do spelling
>>> correction. It would be useful if these capabilities could be
>>> exported by Deskbar handlers/modules.
>> This is not solvable on a global deskbar level. But can be solved by
>> individual modules.
>>
>> In the days before we joined Gnome we did native stemming, but it
>> turned out to be a bottle neck. One of deskbar's prime features are
>> the near-instant searches, and that should be kept as a higher goal
>> than spelling corrections I think.
>>
> We may not be talking about the same thing. I agree that stemming
> is for the back-end engine to handle, and not Deskbar.
> 
> Imagine for instance you want to search for "mikkel" but misspell
> it "mikkal". No results are found, but the engine is able to
> suggest alternative query strings, for instance "mikkel", if this
> term exists in its documents corpus. A feedback mechanism where
> the user is prompted with "Did you mean mikkel ?" would be useful.
> Engines that support this do it rather quickly and it doesn't have
> a noticeable impact on search speed.
> 
If you know of a module that supports this feature, could you please
post a link to it? I'm curious how they do it.

> Similarly, as the user types in the query field, it may be
> desirable to suggest terms; for instance, Firefox shows a list
> of suggestions pulled from Google and Yahoo when you type in its
> search bar.
> 
> Is there a way for Deskbar handles/modules to give this kind of
> feedback at the moment ?
> 
I myself can't think of any way that to do this with the current
architecture.

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Greetings,
Sebastian P�erl
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