KIM Portal - Main Topic Query still incorrect

[mgrani]

When trying to find a demo for next weeks conference, i discovered that the main topic queries are still incorrect for some partners. The KIM Portal Query

(French First Republic) AND (Town OR Egalitarianism OR Napoleon OR Basel) is actually interpreted as
(French OR First OR Republic) AND (Town OR Egalitarianism OR Napoleon OR Basel)

this is wrong and yields to results showing french knickers. it would be urgent to solve this

[hziak]

Solr should use OR by default.
I just made a diff for the results of the two queries of the kimportal api and, except for the query it self, there is no difference.

Switching the query to a conjunct version just does not return any results.
So we would have to adopt a new query strategy for kim.
But i don't know by now how the query has to be formulated for kim that they return meaningful results.

Actually i tried their own search interface just with
"French First Republic Town Egalitarianism Napoleon Basel"
and get the ladies undergarment as results as well.
(It looks like that "french" is the important keyword here)

[mgrani]

Exactly because of french first republic town Egalitarianism Napoleon Basel returning undergarment, i would make the main topic a conjunction, i.e. french AND first AND republic. I would prefer no results over irrelevant results.

So the query would be

(French AND First AND Republic) AND (Town OR Egalitarianism OR Napoleon OR Basel)