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SAPLE: Sandia Advanced Personnel Locator Engine.
Abstract
We present the Sandia Advanced Personnel Locator Engine (SAPLE) web application, a directory search application for use by Sandia National Laboratories personnel. SAPLE's purpose is to return Sandia personnel 'results' as a function of user search queries, with its mission to make it easier and faster to find people at Sandia. To accomplish this, SAPLE breaks from more traditional directory application approaches by aiming to return the correct set of results while placing minimal constraints on the user's query. Two key features form the core of SAPLE: advanced search query interpretation and inexact string matching. SAPLE's query interpretation permits the user to perform compound queries when typing into a single search field; where able, SAPLE infers the type of field that the user intends to search on based on the value of the search term. SAPLE's inexact string matching feature yields a high-quality ranking of personnel search results even when there are no exact matches to the user's query. This paper explores these two key features, describing in detail the architecture and operation of SAPLE. Finally, an extensive analysis on logged search query data taken from an 11-week sample period is presented.
- Authors:
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Sandia National Laboratories (SNL), Albuquerque, NM, and Livermore, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE
- OSTI Identifier:
- 989386
- Report Number(s):
- SAND2010-1756
TRN: US201019%%516
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC04-94AL85000
- Resource Type:
- Technical Report
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 97 MATHEMATICAL METHODS AND COMPUTING; S CODES; PERSONNEL; DETECTION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES; Personnel management.; Database design.
Citation Formats
Procopio, Michael J. SAPLE: Sandia Advanced Personnel Locator Engine.. United States: N. p., 2010.
Web. doi:10.2172/989386.
Procopio, Michael J. SAPLE: Sandia Advanced Personnel Locator Engine.. United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/989386
Procopio, Michael J. 2010.
"SAPLE: Sandia Advanced Personnel Locator Engine.". United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/989386. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/989386.
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title = {SAPLE: Sandia Advanced Personnel Locator Engine.},
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abstractNote = {We present the Sandia Advanced Personnel Locator Engine (SAPLE) web application, a directory search application for use by Sandia National Laboratories personnel. SAPLE's purpose is to return Sandia personnel 'results' as a function of user search queries, with its mission to make it easier and faster to find people at Sandia. To accomplish this, SAPLE breaks from more traditional directory application approaches by aiming to return the correct set of results while placing minimal constraints on the user's query. Two key features form the core of SAPLE: advanced search query interpretation and inexact string matching. SAPLE's query interpretation permits the user to perform compound queries when typing into a single search field; where able, SAPLE infers the type of field that the user intends to search on based on the value of the search term. SAPLE's inexact string matching feature yields a high-quality ranking of personnel search results even when there are no exact matches to the user's query. This paper explores these two key features, describing in detail the architecture and operation of SAPLE. Finally, an extensive analysis on logged search query data taken from an 11-week sample period is presented.},
doi = {10.2172/989386},
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