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Re: Diacritics when searching
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Author: Sarah Cage
Posted: Wed, 08 Feb 2006 16:35:00 -0800
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I create synonyms when I put the items with diacritics in - this is a
bit difficult for journals and I do find the lack of space for
additional journal synonyms a problem.
Fo authors I probably go over the top, crating synonyms for
double-barrelled names, and for ones with more than the Medline-standard
number of initials, as I have less-experienced searchers, and I want to
make sure they find all the relevant papers, but also want the correct
version of the author names when citing papers.
However, the creating synonyms is quite a hassle - it would be much
better if RM could deal with the equivalence of diacritics in the search
program - something for the next version perhaps?
Sarah Cage
Senior Scientific Information Specialist National Poisons Information
Service Birmingham, UK
email "s.cage"
----- Original Message -----
From: ""Becky.Skid????????????" <"Becky.Skid????????????
To: "RIS-List"
Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2006 12:25 AM
Subject: <RefMan> Diacritics when searching
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> Hi:
>
> How do people deal with diacritics when searching? Currently, due to
> computer interpretation of the characters, entries with diacritics are
> potentially lost when searching the non-accented equivalent. I suppose
> it is possible to create synonyms in the various term indexes linking
> terms without diacritics to equivalents without the diacritics, but
this
> would only address indexed terms and the periodical term index has a
> limit of 2 additional user-assigned synonyms.
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> There is some information about character/international word sorting
in
> Help but nothing that appears to address searching.
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> Thanks for any help you can provide.
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> Becky
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> Becky Skidmore, BA, MLS
> Information Specialist
> Canadian Coordinating Office for Health Technology Assessment
> 600-865 Carling Avenue
> Ottawa, ON, Canada
> EMail: "beckys"
> Tel: (613) 226-2553, ext. 228
> Fax: (613) 226-5392
> www.ccohta.ca
>
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