We have the same problem with names in astronomy, so we implemented
dict_regex http://vo.astronet.ru/arxiv/dict_regex.html
Check it out !
Oleg
On Thu, 10 Apr 2008, Reece Hart wrote:
> I'd like to use tsearch2 to index protein and gene names. Unfortunately,
> such names are written inconsistently and sometimes with hyphens. For
> example, MCL-1 and MCL1 are semantically equivalent but with the default
> parser and to_tsvector, I see this:
>
> unison@u8.3=> select to_tsvector('MCL1 MCL-1');
> to_tsvector
> -------------------------
> '-1':3 'mcl':2 'mcl1':1
>
> For the purposes of indexing these names, I suspect I'd get the majority
> of cases by removing a hyphen when it's followed by 1 or 2 chars from
> [a-zA-Z0-9]. Does that require a custom parser?
>
> Thanks,
> Reece
>
>
Regards,
Oleg
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