Re: Orbis search string

["Mark D. Szuchman" <szuchman>]

Lee,
It could well be that the issue lies in the "spread" of text you have set 
up Orbis to search for. If you want to search for "notabene version," Orbis 
will automatically assume the "and" in between the two words. That's one 
issue. The other is the length of the text unit it will search the terms 
for: sentence, paragraph, entire file, etc. Thus, if you are set up to 
search by sentence, and you wish to find instances of both "notabene" and 
"version" but "notabene" appears in one sentence and "version" in another, 
there will be no yield.

One easy way to find out is to search for "notabene" or "version." If you 
get any hits, it's likely that the type of  linguistic unit you set up is 
not able to capture both terms. If this theory is wrong, or if you believe 
there is something else afoot, you can always re-index the db and see where 
that takes you. If you need to change the setup structure, you can do that 
instead.
Mark


At 08:13 AM 6/10/2004, you wrote:
> Dear list members,
>
> I am using Orbis in NB 6.1.1 and can't seem to find any means of
> searching
> on a string rather than word combination (nor do I see any reference
> in
> previous discussions on the list, though this must have arisen
> before) --
> is it possible to search for the string "notabene version" rather
> than
> simply combining "notabene" and "version" (which identifes text
> blocks in
> which the two words are not adjacent)? This seems such an obvious
> requirement in a textbase that I must simply be using the wrong
> search
> string myself!
>
> thanks,
> Lee Komito
> ----
> Lee Komito  lkomito@ucd.ie