Discovery/Status updates/2018-04-02

This is the weekly update for the week starting 2018-03-26 and 2018-04-02

Search

 * Stas finished up the work to enable the query builder hook so that using label & description index for fulltext searches work
 * Erik worked on boosting search results with exact phrase match and updated the models to one that is significantly less expensive
 * We completed a task for an in-place reindex to all wikis to pick up new trigram index for title and redirect.title field
 * Trey finished his review of Slovak Morphological Libraries
 * David completed a forceSearchIndex on testwiki, mediawikiwiki, labswiki, labtestwiki, svwiki, and everything on Beta Cluster
 * Trey added support for external stemmer to Analyzer Analysis tools
 * David did work to make all SearchKeywords a subclass of SimpleKeywordFeature, to remove and centralize all the parsing logic out of these classes
 * David also corrected a CirrusSearch Error "An error has occurred while searching" that was due to a comma used as decimal separator

Analysis

 * Chelsy finished up the a report on analyzing the results of query explorer AB test

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