Dear all,


I received some remarks on the search interface, which I would like to answer as follows:

1. Search by words with capitals: the search string is now lower-cased, so it also works for words with capitals.

2. The "exact search" box is implicit, so it will not pass into not selected state when the user selects any of the other options, for the reason that, in case when there are not suggestions at all, besides the exact term, the user will still get the exact term, if any.

3. To search for words like "paśupata", it is enough to select the "one difference" search type, and the list of three suggestions is displayed (pa?upata, pasupata, pazupata); afterwards, one can search by any of these suggestions by selecting it and clicking the "Search by suggestions" button.
By selecting the "two differences" search type, the list of suggestions is larger, but still interesting: p??upata, pa?upata, pa?upati, paazupata, padapata, parpata, pashupata, pasupata, pasupatas, pasupatha, pazupata, pazupatas, pazupati.
Finally, by selecting the ngram search type, the suggestion list is as follows: p??upata, pa?upata, paashupata, paazupata, padarthatattvanirupana, pashupata, pasupata, pasupatasutra, pazupata, prakritararupavatara, prakrtarupavatara.
The search types can be combined.

Thanks to Mr. Harry Spier for the remarks!

Best regards,
Claudius Teodorescu


On Thu, 2 Nov 2023 at 00:55, Dominik Wujastyk via INDOLOGY <indology@list.indology.info> wrote:
I'm delighted to announce that our colleague Claudius Teodorescu has been addressing the issue of searching the archive of Indology messages.  Applying his formidable computing skills to the problem, he has provided a new interface that successfully searches the whole archive from 1994 to 2020.  The interface is here:
and I have also added a link on the main INDOLOGY.info page,

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I believe Claudius will be extending the database to include posts from 2020 to the latest ones.

With the most sincere thanks to Claudius for this very helpful feature!

Dominik

Dominik Wujastyk
INDOLOGY list committee member
Please do not reply to me personally: reply to indology-owner@list.indology.info

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