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On Feb 19, 2011, at 11:26 AM, Cindy Harper wrote: > I just was testing our discovery engine for any technical issues after a > reboot. I was just using random single words, and one word I used was > "correct". Looking at the first ranked items, I wondered if there's some > role for parts-of-speech in ranking hits - are nouns and , in this case, > adjectives more indicative of aboutness than verbs? The first items were > "Miss Manners ... excruciating correctly behavior", then a bunch of govdocs > on "an act to correct....". I don't think there's any reason to prefer > nouns over verbs, but I thought I'd throw the thought at you anyway. Ironically, I was playing with parts-of-speech (POS) analysis the other day. [1] Using a pseudo-random sample of texts, I found there to be surprisingly similar POS usage between texts. With such similarity, I thought it would be difficult to use general POS as a means for ranking or sorting. On the other hand, specific POS may be useful. For example, Thoreau was dominated by first-person male pronouns but Austen was dominated by second person female pronouns. I think there is something to be explored here. [1] POS - http://bit.ly/hsxD2i -- Eric "Still Counting Tweets and Chats" Morgan