Yes you're right, reading and re-reading cirrus config file I can't find anything that could bring more results by just tweaking some config values :(

Next step is to use interwiki searches to run queries written in another language which is also a "big feature".

There's another feature we could work on after this one:
Review the default AND operator between words. This seems to be in line with Moiz's survey results and "somewhat" related to the paper reviewed by Trey :
Users ask questions not keywords, for example this query :
what's the connection between power laws and zipf law [1]
returns no result

but:
power laws zipf distribution [2]
returns good results

I think a first naive approach would be to review this default AND and try something like: if there is more than X words allow Y% to match.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Search&search=what%27s+the+connection+between+power+laws+and+zipf+distribution&profile=default&runsuggestion=0
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ASearch&profile=default&search=power+laws+zipf+distribution&fulltext=Search

Le 27/08/2015 04:39, Oliver Keyes a écrit :

So I'm hearing we may have a contender for 'big changes to the ZRR' then ;).

This seems to reinforce the 'big features, not small config changes'
approach to the problem.

On 26 August 2015 at 19:34, Trey Jones <tjones@wikimedia.org> wrote:

And that's in line with the previous experiment. If you have a 32% zero
results rate, reducing it by 38% (32% * (1-.38)) gives 19.84%. So, allow a
little rounding error in the "32", "38" and "19", and this is right on the
money.

—Trey
P.S.: 2 + 2 = 5, for very large values of 2.

Trey Jones
Software Engineer, Discovery
Wikimedia Foundation

On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 3:58 PM, Erik Bernhardson
<ebernhardson@wikimedia.org> wrote:

I ran some zero result rate tests against this API today, it is a huge
reduction in the zero result rate over the existing prefix search.  from 32%
to 19% (on a 1% sample of prefix searches for an entire day)

On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 12:34 PM, Stas Malyshev <smalyshev@wikimedia.org>
wrote:

Hi!

I uploaded a small HTML page to compare both approaches:
http://cirrus-browser-bot.wmflabs.org/suggest.html

This is very cool! From my very short testing, seems that it works
pretty nicely.

--
Stas Malyshev
smalyshev@wikimedia.org

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