Uncontent with Logos' mechanical "contentment" results

toughski

I was preparing a sermon on contentment, and although Sermon Starter Guide was somewhat helpful in locating relevant verses, its collections search was terrible.

Basic search for "contentment" produced much better results

why isn't the same algorithm used in the Sermon Starter?

I agree, "Content" is a tricky word, but Logos5 should be smarter than that!!!

Mark Barnes

toughski said:

I agree, "Content" is a tricky word, but Logos5 should be smarter than that!!!

I think the problem here is that actually Logos is being too smart for its own good.

toughski said:

why isn't the same algorithm used in the Sermon Starter?

The Collections section is designed to be broad in its approach, and is not curated. It deliberately pulls in results that would not be included in other sections, and therefore as a consequence there's going to be a lot of noise in it. Personally, I hide the section, and use the Definition and Illustrations sections of the Topic Guide instead. Uncurated sections in Guides that default to your entire library are really designed for those with small libraries, to make sure they get at least some results. In fairness, if it wasn't picking up the contents headings in several resources, it wouldn't be that bad.

toughski said:

why isn't the same algorithm used in the Sermon Starter?

The search that's used tries to be inclusive so the search will be probably be for something like content, contentment, satisfaction, dissatisfaction, restlessness (using the headwords from the Theme and Thematic Outlines sections). The search is also restricted to heading text. Usually, that logic works reasonably well. Here it doesn't. (I can't find the exact search string that generates the section, but this one is pretty close.)

There was a discussion of some of the sections in the TG and SSG recently. This particular section wasn't covered in the discussion, but nonetheless you might find it interesting: http://community.logos.com/forums/p/70556/491247.aspx#491247