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Controlling Direction of Dropped Tokens in Queries

TLDR Dima wants to control the direction of dropped tokens, while Kishore Nallan says it's not possible and advises creating a GitHub issue for a feature request.

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Jun 23, 2023 (5 months ago)

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Dima

10:02 AM

Hi team! Can I control the direction of dropped tokens? We found that our users may add something like “source” at the start of the query, e.g. “site_name title of the document” because they think that it will improve search quality 😢

So dropping tokens from the end requires more steps

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Kishore Nallan

10:09 AM

No that's not possible, can you please create an issue on GitHub. Happy to track it as a feature request.

Dima

10:43 AM

Got it, Kishore 🙏 One more question: does exhaustive_search also drop tokens from end to start of the query?

Kishore Nallan

10:44 AM

Yes

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