Martin Holmes

Deprecate and remove the dictionary file?

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@joeytakeda suggests that we're now only using the dictionary file for the processing report; if so, we can remove complexity and overhead by getting rid of it in 2.0. See...

Interaction of weighting and phrasal search

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This is not necessarily a bug or an FR, more a prompt for us to discuss and decide on a policy regarding the interaction of weighting and phrasal searching. If...

Reorganization of folder structure

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@joeytakeda and I decided today that we should reorganize some content as follows: 1. Create a resources folder in the root. 2. Move the stemmers folder into it. 3. Create...

Need to get serious about CSS for the search page

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Our default CSS is pretty ugly, and is really focused mainly on functionality rather than attractiveness, but it needs a fair bit of work. Specifically: 1. The selectors are overly...

Allow specification by XPath of elements where the stopword list should be ignored when indexing

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Working on a couple of indigenous language dictionaries, we've encountered an intriguing problem. It's perfectly legitimate for a user/learner of the language to want to search for the other language...

In feature filters, minWordLength should never be longer than the shortest value

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Feature filters currently inherit their minWordLength setting from the main StaticSearch class, where it is set primarily for the purposes of stem generation. However, it's possible for a feature filter...

Need better programmer documentation

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As more sophisticated project teams are adopting staticSearch, it's clear that we need to do a better job of providing documentation for programmers who need to override and customize behaviour....

Following the work on issue #300, it seems plausible that other situations will arise in which the default tokenization regex is not appropriate for a particular linguistic or historical context....

Tokenizer treats an alphabetic character as a word-delimiter

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The codepoint U+A78F: https://util.unicode.org/UnicodeJsps/character.jsp?a=A78F (LATIN LETTER SINOLOGICAL DOT) is in the Latin Extended D block, and is Alphabetic, and in the Other_Letter category; Wikipedia explains "A middot may be used...

Ampersands function in initial phrasal search, but are not correctly restored from URL

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If you use an ampersand in a phrasal search, then reload the search page, the ampersand causes the phrasal search to be decomposed and only the word before the ampersand...