Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 65822
Enable thesaurus for two-word queries
Last modified: 2013-02-07 22:37:22 UTC
Seriously deficient in the word-forms, this needs to *come out of the dark ages*, in two senses. A. We do need to have it providing the proper word-forms equivalent to the inital word, at long last: past tenses of weak AND strong verbs, -ing-forms and plurals -- in the case of the English language! B. It should respond to two-word queries (such as phrasal verbs, the common compounds) WITHOUT need to highlight that! Yes: placing cursor between them should be enough. Surely, intelligence should have dicatated these two things long ago. I repeat the story. My little electronic typewriter made back in 1991 already had an excellent Thesaurus, which included all these forms and that ease with two-word queries...! That had been supplied by Houghton Mifflin (??spelling). Ergo: You should approach THAT literary firm!
Reassigned to SBA.
reassigned to requirements
Part A is already addressed by issue #19563, part B should be visible in the title. Adjusted the title; the idea is to search for two-word expression in the thesaurus just in case the words are not highlighted; the cursor is not on any word. The practical problem: if the cursor is between "come| back" in the position I marked with "|" the user could want to search "come". The same goes for "come |back" - the user might want to search for "back". The logical solution would be to search for "come", "back", and "come back", and to put the results of the query in the box. nemeth->Is it feasible?
Milek: Absolutely. Moreover, I have submitted a tender to FSF.HU Foundation, Hungary about OOo development, including Part A. Unfortunatelly, this project has lower priority for this Hungarian foundation, because we need a Hungarian thesaurus firstly.
nemeth -> should you need assistance in creating the thesaurus, you can look at the openthesaurus.de for a working method.
setting as new, confirmed and viable.
Milek: Thanks. It seems, we may have stemmer and affix generator for OOo thesaurus component before Hungarian thesaurus, because I am working on the stemmer and affix generator extension of Hunspell. I'd like to extend this functionality in MyThes also for two-word queries like "came back", "coming back".
laci, great to hear that.
*** Issue 62343 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
note that if you have word1| word2 the user is likely to see synonyms for word1 (see duplicated issue). So the behavior must account for all three cases.