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The asterisk notation used in searches has become less useful, in my opinion. When searching for "bir daha *mak" from Turkish to English, I get results like:
Bir daha orada yaşamak istemiyor.
Onu bir daha hiç yapmak istemiyorum.
If I had wanted an intervening word, I would have searched for "bir daha * *mak"! But that's not what I want. I want specifically results, if any, like:
...bir daha almak...
...bir daha yapmak...
https://tatoeba.org/eng/sentenc...rom=tur&to=eng
You can achieve what you want by using the proximity search operator, ~. The following search:
"bir daha *mak"~1
will search for the phrase "bir daha" separated from a word ending with "mak" by up to, but not including, 1 word. (In other words, there must be 0 words separating them.) See this link:
https://docs.manticoresearch.co...ry_syntax.html
I also updated our wiki page:
https://en.wiki.tatoeba.org/art...ow/text-search
Wow. I guess this is a new feature. Thanks.
You're welcome. You could also do this search:
bir NEAR/1 daha NEAR/1 *mak
I'm not sure it makes sense to describe the NEAR operator on the wiki page, but you can find a description here:
https://docs.manticoresearch.co...ry_syntax.html
It's pretty unintuitive, no? A more regexp-like notation would have been better. Like...
"bir daha *mak" (no intervening words)
Matches: "bir daha yapmak"
"bir* daha *mak" (no intervening words)
Matches: "biraz daha çalışmak"
"bir daha *{2} *mak" (up to two intervening words)
Matches:
"bir daha yapmak"
"bir daha araba kullanmak"
"bir daha yeni araba kullanmak"
"bir daha *{1} *m[a|e]k" (up to one intervening word and matching *mak or *mek)
Matches:
"bir daha yapmak"
"bir daha söylemek"
"bir daha araba kullanmak"
"bir daha araba sürmek"
That syntax would work fine for me, since I'm familiar with regular expressions, but perhaps the Sphinx/Manticore team decided it would be difficult for people who weren't. Or perhaps they had other constraints.