v0.28: Smart cropping

[guimachiavelli]

Currently, when using attributesToCrop, Meilisearch will start cropping at the first occurrence of any search term. If a user searches for 'white car', cropping of 'the woman in the white shirt drove a white car' will be centred on the first 'white', even though the second occurrence includes both terms.

With v0.28, a new cropping algorithm will instead centre cropping so it includes the highest possible number of search terms. We are calling this "smart cropping."

References

PR: meilisearch/milli#483
Issue on core: meilisearch/meilisearch#2299
SME: @ManyTheFish

[ManyTheFish]

Hey @guimachiavelli, about the "smart cropping" names, it's not an official name chosen by the product team but an identifier for the core team.
You can freely change it for something else that would better fit the documentation.

[guimachiavelli]

Thanks for the clarification, @ManyTheFish ☺️

[guimachiavelli]

@ManyTheFish, just to be sure: what is the cropping behaviour for single-word queries (e.g. shirt)? Do we centre the crop around the first occurrence of the term, like on <=v0.27, but take the sentence context in consideration, like on >=v0.28?

[ManyTheFish]

we take the sentence context in consideration 😄

[guimachiavelli]

Brilliant, thanks!