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Author: Becky Skidmore
Posted: Mon, 06 Feb 2006 16:25:00 -0800
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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.
There is some information about character/international word sorting in
Help but nothing that appears to address searching.
Thanks for any help you can provide.
Becky
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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| 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"
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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.
>
> There is some information about character/international word sorting
in
> Help but nothing that appears to address searching.
>
> Thanks for any help you can provide.
>
> Becky
>
> 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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