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Start date: ; release date: .
Source code: https://github.com/cul-it/arxiv-search/releases/tag/0.2
Improvements to author search and fixes to bugs from release 0.1. For additional details, see this blog post: https://blogs.cornell.edu/arxiv/2018/05/04/release-search-v0-2-some-notes-on-names/
Try the new search interface here: https://arxiv.org/search
Features & Improvements
Author SearchSearching by author name:
There is some confusion between how the classic author search works compared to the new author search, so we will update updated the documentation to clarify the differences.
Users expect expected to see better results when searching for multiple (co-)authors, and when searching by title/abstract terms and author names in "all fields". We have made significant improvements to cross-field searches.
- Users had difficulty retrieving results for a specific author or set of authors., and avoiding spurious and unrelated results. We have simplified and improved the logic applied to author name searches to provide a narrower set of results and more predictable behavior overall.
Reintroduced Reintroduce (experimental) full-text search: users were disappointed to see the classic experimental full-text search disappear, so we have reintroduced that option. . The experimental full text search is not operated by the arXiv team, but we do plan to introduce in-house full text search later this year.
- Tweaks to user interface:
- Some users find found the small and light abstract text too hard to read; we have increased the font size and darkened the type.
- Some mobile users are were having trouble interacting with the advanced search form. We've made some adjustments to address those issues.
Bugs
- Author search fixes:
- Users are having trouble Fixed a problem that was causing trouble when searching for names that contain hyphens.
- There are some problems searching for names Fixed a problem that was causing unexpected results when searching by author name using initials.
- Searching all papers for authors yields Fixed a problem that was generating too many false positives . We should be sorting results by relevance by default, and be clearer through documentation about what relevance means.in searches by author name.
- Errors in handling certain characters: a set of special characters is causing the interface to return errors when it shouldn'tfixed a bug that was causing errors when certain characters were entered.
- Miscellaneous:
- There's some Fixed an inconsistency in how we are linking link to the abstract page and paper PDF in the search results.
- There are problems Fixed a bug that prevented searching for papers that have classifications in categories that are no longer canonical.
- A Fixed a bug that caused a small set of papers is to be missing from the index, or can't easily be foundsearch results.