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[Tracker] Search
Tracker issue for implementation of search.
- [x] Collaborative Tags
- [x] Recognize
- [x] Face Recognition
- [x] Albums
- [x] Places
- [ ] Dates (e.g. 2017 January)
- [ ] File Type (e.g. videos)
- [ ] Multiple categories
- [ ] FTS
- [ ] EXIF data (e.g. title/description)
- [ ] Search with synonyms (e.g. Drink => Beverage)
- [ ] Search with word forms (e.g. Animals => Animal)
- [ ] Localization
Original Post
Semantic search would be a very welcome feature
Describe the solution you'd like Semantic search allows searching using phrases rather than tags stored in a database.
A search may be something like: boy wearing red shirt
Describe alternatives you've considered Tags via Recognize are pretty good but searching multiple tags is cumbersome in Nextcloud
Additional context I realize this may be limited by the existing nextcloud search functionality, but i wanted to file it here anyway since this type of semantic search is becoming more common in photo libraries.
A good semantic search is very complex, so much so that even Google Photos doesn't support this. Capturing context is fundamentally a very challenging task. For example, if we simply tokenize the input string, then boy wearing red shirt matches both of
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boy wearing red shirt -
boy wearing blue shirt in red boat
but not
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boy wearing red jersey -
boy in red shirt
A more realistic goal would be to support full text search on the existing tags (including faces), which can then be extended for simple queries, like X and Y.
Full text search on tags sounds like a good compromise. Feel free to adjust the title of the issue if you want to track full text search here.