[Discovery_PVE_Comm] Secret search parameter to improve title search results?

[Laura Spradlin]

Thanks for sending this, Jessica! Happy to have wrenches thrown in,
especially if it can improve things broadly!

Sorry for the long line of screenshots below, but I think this might be a
relevant example--one use case I've been playing with is *The Beet Queen* by
Louise Erdrich. Searching *beet queen* prompts Primo VE's search expansion
with controlled vocabulary and includes "Louise Erdrich" in the search. *The
Beet Queen *comes up as result #5 in an All I-Share Libraries search
(boosting did slightly improve this; previously, our IWU holding, which is
grouped in the #5 result, was #7).

[image: image.png]

However, if I click "Just search *beet queen*," *The Beet Queen *comes up
as the #1 and #2 result (boosting also helped our copy rise to the top--our
IWU holding is in the first 6-version FRBR group, which, prior to boosting,
was the #7 result; the second 3-version FRBR group, which does not include
our holding, was #1):

[image: image.png]

If I search *the beet queen*, the search expansion automatically comes up,
but now *The Beet Queen* comes up as results #1 and #4. Our IWU holding is
in result #4:

[image: image.png]

And if I click "Just search *the beet queen," *the 3-version FRBR group is
the #1 result with the 6-version FRBR group at #2:

[image: image.png]

So, in this example, it seems like "the" is having an impact, but so is the
search expansion (which we have not done any real testing on).

Based on the descriptions in the listserv messages, it does seem like this
setting would help and be worth testing, if for nothing else than it
doesn't seem like "the" should make that much of a difference in search
results.

Thank you!
Laura

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On Fri, May 17, 2024 at 10:18 AM Gibson, Jessica via Discovery_PVE_Comm <
discovery_pve_comm at carli.illinois.edu> wrote:

> Hi, everyone,
>
> While I don’t want to throw a wrench into Laura’s upcoming part of the
> June 11th webinar on Search Ranking, I’ve been catching up on my
> Alma/Primo customer list emails, and I found the recent thread (attached;
> read from the bottom up; the magenta highlighting is mine) to be quite
> interesting. Apparently, there is a previously secret customer parameter,
> discovery_customer_defined_exact_match_field, that might help with exact
> title search matching.
>
>
>
> I would like to get the Committee’s thoughts on this since it sounds like
> it may be another on setting that needs to be coordinated consortially, but
> our next meeting isn’t until June 5, less than a week before the webinar.
> Could we at least start to discuss via this topic via this committee email
> list in advance of our meeting?
>
>
>
> Are you all experiencing the same issues outlined in this thread with
> searching?
>
>
>
> Do you think this setting might help based on the descriptions?
>
>
>
> Should I file a Case to ask Ex Libris to see if they will enable this
> setting in our Sandbox so we could compare the differences in our 5 sandbox
> IZs and NZ Primo VEs with our production Primo VEs?
>
>
>
> We can perhaps also do some basic testing using other sites Primo VEs who
> indicate they have turned it on; for example, Lesli’s library is
> https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://thslc-houston.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/search?vid=01TEXASHEALTH_HOUSTON:TMC_INST&lang=en__;!!DZ3fjg!_elE7my7R2jIEv9qwQBHndMQ9iPLgpXEoBRZAtcLvfG--KuSrkeXBpWi4KztVuIKFyklxevY85QYiTYki8Od2HEVmc1on1mlhFxV$ 
> <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://thslc-houston.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/search?vid=01TEXASHEALTH_HOUSTON:TMC_INST&lang=en__;!!DZ3fjg!_1S9731apWaL8OW9Xm5SFXDd-5nleteqvWltEcEskSgSikhSuyYMu7_33hm8LegHRWQHzCMcXP1SKXmSvLHh46PknHLLitBSNpY$>
> .
>
>
>
> thanks,
>
> -Jessica
>
>
>
> --
>
> Jessica Gibson
>
> Assistant Director, System Services
>
> Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois (CARLI)
>
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