Joe Paulsen wrote:
> Hope this isn't out of context - but Dan makes a very valid point.
> Besides the potential performance slowdown if NLP was always applied to
> a users query - there are times that an exact term match is desired
> without the "query expansion" that an NLP process normally requires.
Query expansion can (and I believe should) be done efficiently outside
the core of search engine. After all, it's a process of changing the
query according to some expansion/rewriting algorithms, but it is still
the unchanged search engine that in the end has to answer the new query...
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Best regards,
Andrzej Bialecki
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