[Koha] Relevance

Lori Bowen Ayre lori.ayre at galecia.com
Wed Jun 27 09:48:13 NZST 2012


This this help?

 01:42 <http://irc.koha-community.org/irclog/koha/2012-04-27#i_958182>Milts_NZHey
Idlers, is there anyone I can talk to about stopwords in Koha?
01:42 <http://irc.koha-community.org/irclog/koha/2012-04-27#i_958183>
druthbHi, Milts.  :)
01:43 <http://irc.koha-community.org/irclog/koha/2012-04-27#i_958184>Milts_NZhey
:D
01:43 <http://irc.koha-community.org/irclog/koha/2012-04-27#i_958185> we're
playing with stopwords, and it seems to make little difference... is it
correct that you can't use stopwords if Zebra is turned on?
01:43<http://irc.koha-community.org/irclog/koha/2012-04-27#i_958186>
because
without them our relevancy ranking is pretty off...
01:44<http://irc.koha-community.org/irclog/koha/2012-04-27#i_958187>druthbThe
short answer is, if you're using NoZebra, there are stopwords, but you
have bigger problems, as that is deprecated, and really shouldn't be used.
 If you're using Zebra, there are no stopwords.
01:44<http://irc.koha-community.org/irclog/koha/2012-04-27#i_958188>Milts_NZah
I was wondering that. We are using Zebra.
01:44 <http://irc.koha-community.org/irclog/koha/2012-04-27#i_958189>
druthbI've not observed that problem here; lemme grab a couple of
settings for
you to check. 01:44<http://irc.koha-community.org/irclog/koha/2012-04-27#i_958190>mtjooh,
that sounds like it needs a bug logged
01:44 <http://irc.koha-community.org/irclog/koha/2012-04-27#i_958191>
druthbwhat does?
01:44 <http://irc.koha-community.org/irclog/koha/2012-04-27#i_958192>wahanuidoes
is calculate the discount on this price or the tax is removed before
to calculte the discount on the price before taxes?
01:45<http://irc.koha-community.org/irclog/koha/2012-04-27#i_958193>druthbwahanui:
forget does
01:45 <http://irc.koha-community.org/irclog/koha/2012-04-27#i_958194>wahanuidruthb:
I forgot does
01:45 <http://irc.koha-community.org/irclog/koha/2012-04-27#i_958195>Milts_NZI've
got a screenshot of a search for the title of an item uploaded here:
http://www.4freeimagehost.com/[…]=8740fa83bc35.png<http://www.4freeimagehost.com/show.php?i=8740fa83bc35.png>
01:46 <http://irc.koha-community.org/irclog/koha/2012-04-27#i_958196> and
it appears 6th in the list with all the items before it seemingly appearing
because they have "a" and "the" in the titles
01:46<http://irc.koha-community.org/irclog/koha/2012-04-27#i_958197>druthbwe
get best results with QueryAutoTruncate set to "only if * is added",
QueryFuzzy "Try", QueryStemming "Try", QueryWeightFields "Enable".
01:47<http://irc.koha-community.org/irclog/koha/2012-04-27#i_958198>
Now,
in the default install, defaultSortField/defaultSortOrder are set to
relevance/ascending, which doesn't make much sense...it puts the *lowest*
relevance first.
01:47<http://irc.koha-community.org/irclog/koha/2012-04-27#i_958199>Milts_NZOK.
We don't have QueryFuzzy and QueryStemming on, maybe they would help
01:47 <http://irc.koha-community.org/irclog/koha/2012-04-27#i_958200> ooooo
o.0 01:47 <http://irc.koha-community.org/irclog/koha/2012-04-27#i_958201>druthbI
always end up setting defaultSortOrder and OPACdefaultSortOrder to
"descending," which makes better sense for relevance.
01:48<http://irc.koha-community.org/irclog/koha/2012-04-27#i_958202>Milts_NZwill
that also make a difference when searching in the staff side?
01:48 <http://irc.koha-community.org/irclog/koha/2012-04-27#i_958203>
druthbdefaultSortOrder is the staff sidd, OPACdefaultSortOrder is the
OPAC
01:48 <http://irc.koha-community.org/irclog/koha/2012-04-27#i_958204> *side
01:49 <http://irc.koha-community.org/irclog/koha/2012-04-27#i_958205>
mtjdruthb: a patch to remove stopwords, after nozebra code is  deleted
01:49 <http://irc.koha-community.org/irclog/koha/2012-04-27#i_958206>
druthbno need to reindex when you change those; it Just Works.
01:49 <http://irc.koha-community.org/irclog/koha/2012-04-27#i_958207> mtj++
  once NoZebra is gone, yeah, all the stuff that only works for NoZebra
needs to go away tooooo
01:50<http://irc.koha-community.org/irclog/koha/2012-04-27#i_958208>Milts_NZdruthb:
Thanks, playing with the sort order's done it
01:50 <http://irc.koha-community.org/irclog/koha/2012-04-27#i_958209>
druthbGlad to have been of service Milts.  I set up new installs all
the time,
and that's just one of my setting-up steps.
01:52<http://irc.koha-community.org/irclog/koha/2012-04-27#i_958210>Milts_NZdruthb:
SpaceLibrarian also says Hi and THANKS

I found it in the IRC logs by searching "relevancy"  in the home page
search box.

Lori


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On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 1:38 PM, BRANNON, CHRISTOPHER <
CBRANNON at cdalibrary.org> wrote:

> I was wondering if anyone could shed some light on how relevance is
> determined in the Koha catalog.  Our consortium cannot figure out why
> things are in the order they are in when sorting by relevance.  There is
> apparently no information handy on this topic.  Any insight on this topic
> would be most appreciated!
>
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