Thanks for this. The reproducibility thing is really interesting. My experience from spending a fair while puzzling at why certain things do not work in EDS is that normally there is something going on in the syntax / expanders that is not immediately apparent. We had to write an FAQ about the interaction between phrase searching and stemming for example. Viz our chat online - I think NLS works ok on EDS but not so much for ehost. These are different kinds of search (all be it the new interface is going to make them look rather too alike).
Yeah, I don't think it is just EDS, most of these retrieval systems have various things going in the pipelines. Sometimes you get lucky and the things described in the documentation is enough to allow you to reproduce the results. Other times, there is some weird interaction, so sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.
Yeah I don't want to be too harsh on the new NLS in ehost because I am more used to testing over a more comprehensive coverage, but it doesn't seem very good in my limited testing, though it is often better than nothing if you really type in natural language where the conventional search will give 0 results.
Thanks for this. The reproducibility thing is really interesting. My experience from spending a fair while puzzling at why certain things do not work in EDS is that normally there is something going on in the syntax / expanders that is not immediately apparent. We had to write an FAQ about the interaction between phrase searching and stemming for example. Viz our chat online - I think NLS works ok on EDS but not so much for ehost. These are different kinds of search (all be it the new interface is going to make them look rather too alike).
Yeah, I don't think it is just EDS, most of these retrieval systems have various things going in the pipelines. Sometimes you get lucky and the things described in the documentation is enough to allow you to reproduce the results. Other times, there is some weird interaction, so sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.
Yeah I don't want to be too harsh on the new NLS in ehost because I am more used to testing over a more comprehensive coverage, but it doesn't seem very good in my limited testing, though it is often better than nothing if you really type in natural language where the conventional search will give 0 results.