[Xapian-discuss] Thesaurus feature?

[Richard Boulton]

Olly Betts wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 23, 2007 at 02:14:17PM +0100, Richard Boulton wrote:
>> Craig Macdonald wrote:
>>> Out of interest, can I ask the type of statistics used to derive 
>>> synonyms and how this differentiates from how Xapian performs query
>>> expansion using the enquire set?
 >>
>> These are manually entered synonyms, not automatically derived synonyms.
> 
> We've not included any mechanism in Xapian for automatically deriving
> them, but you could implement such a mechanism and feed its results into
> Xapian, so I wouldn't really describe them as "manually entered".

Yes, quite right.

Out of interest, Craig (or anyone else), can you recommend / suggest any 
useful statistics / algorithms for deriving synonyms?

-- 
Richard