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"Did you mean" has no option for selecting, "No."

A librarian submitted the following question:

"If you do a search in the catalog for Andrew Lyght (he's an artist), you get the message "Do you mean Andrew Light?" and a whole bunch of results that have lyght spelled "light". There is no option to say "No, I mean Lyght."

I think the Google-like functionality of "did you mean..." is a good
direction to go in, but there needs to be an option to respond to that question, especially when what the catalog is guessing is wrong. Overall, this isn't a helpful implementation as it currently works."

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  • Stacey van Groll commented  · 

    Doesn't that CSS code just hide the suggestion, Manuela? The DYM index is taking effect on the results in Primo VE, right? So the results would still be highlighted as 'light', using the original example.
    I often think that the downfall of this feature is what seems to be the unnecessary complexity, so it is almost impossible to explain.
    For example, if I test this on one of my local data sources with Hmong consumers, I get two results with among and consumers highlighted. If I choose the suggestion for 'among consumers', then I get 19 results, some of which have among and consumers also clearly in the data, including the title. But the key is that the two which showed up originally have apparently been triggered by the Levenshtein distance aspect of the distance between the two words (it's not documented what that is specifically that I can find), whereas in the other records the words among and consumer are further apart.
    Try explaining that to a user!
    And there's also the issue that only the local index is used to build the index from title and authors, which drastically reduces the value because it's missing out on more unique and newer terms that might only be in emerging research topics which only have articles thus far in CDI, which are actually more likely for users to misspell and need help with.

  • Manu Schwendener commented  · 

    Also, 'Did you mean' should not show propositions that have zero hits when I click on it.

    = propositions need to be limited to the search scope slot I'm in and the filters I have activated.

  • Natasha Stephan commented  · 

    For our library, it's "urn" (Did you intend to search for: turn?). This, along with the other examples in the comments, illustrates that such a thesaurus needs to be context-specific and not based on the general pool of data across all libraries sharing a hosted server.

    This functionality definitely needs to be tweaked further...

  • William Doering commented  · 

    Foosball brings up football
    more examples

    Spelunking brings up skulking
    skeet shooting brings up sheet shooting
    statue brings up state
    bug brings up big
    settee brings up settle

  • William Doering commented  · 

    Other examples are:

    Ho Chunk (brings up ho chung)
    Hmong cultures (brings up among cultures)
    Hmong relations (brings up among relations)
    clams (brings up claims)

  • William Doering commented  · 

    Another example is Hmong Consumers, Hmong is automatically changed to Among and the actual Hmong results are totally buried.

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