Search Returning Bad Results

[seamuskraft]

Searching for "Elections" and "Election Law" and got this

[krusynth]

Not much to be done here until we have the legal thesaurus work complete, we've done the best we can for now.

[krusynth]

A bit more background here: Solr tries to return something in most cases, and pointedly does not have a "minimum threshold" for matches. The first result is ranked "1", no matter how good or awful it is, so we can't just say "show us results that rank above X%". The community seems resistant to even allowing this basic functionality, so I'm not entirely sure how to proceed on this.

[krusynth]

I've taken Waldo's advice and removed all synonyms from search. This means that there shouldn't be any more false positives as reported in these issues - however, it also means that anything close won't be matched - only literal matches. That's about the best we can do for now.

[seamuskraft]

Ok.

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On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 3:28 PM, Bill Hunt [email protected] wrote:

I've taken Waldo's advice and removed all synonyms from search. This means
that there shouldn't be any more false positives as reported in these
issues - however, it also means that anything close won't be matched -
only literal matches. That's about the best we can do for now.

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