What are you talking about?! A search engine isn't a compiler with a
programmer for a user and a strict syntax. The job of a search engine is to
produce the best results it can *for any given input*. Am I missing
something here?
Andrew.
On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 5:15 PM, Adriano Crestani <adrianocrest...@gmail.com
> wrote:
> It's valid syntax error, since - is the exclusion operator, so the QP
> expects a term, phrase, parenthesis, etc after that.
>
> On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 5:05 PM, Andrew Kane <andrewrk...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Shouldn't these two queries be fine? (from TREC million query track).
> > Should this be entered as a bug?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Andrew.
> >
> >
> >
> > Cannot parse 'statistics on child labor laws 1930 -': Encountered "<EOF>"
> > at
> > line 1, column 37.
> > Was expecting one of:
> > "(" ...
> > "*" ...
> > <QUOTED> ...
> > <TERM> ...
> > <PREFIXTERM> ...
> > <WILDTERM> ...
> > "[" ...
> > "{" ...
> > <NUMBER> ...
> > <TERM> ...
> > "*" ...
> >
> > Cannot parse 'u.s. census bureau local employment dynamics --':
> Encountered
> > " "-" "- "" at line 1, column 46.
> > Was expecting one of:
> > "(" ...
> > "*" ...
> > <QUOTED> ...
> > <TERM> ...
> > <PREFIXTERM> ...
> > <WILDTERM> ...
> > "[" ...
> > "{" ...
> > <NUMBER> ...
> > <TERM> ...
> > "*" ...
> >
>
