Poor matches against SO, likely due to use of underscores

[cmungall]

Searching for splice site, I would expect HIGH confidence matches for SIO and SO, as these exactly match the main name:

$ curl -L -s 'http://www.ebi.ac.uk/spot/zooma/v2/api/services/annotate?propertyValue=splice+site' | jq '.[] | .confidence, .semanticTags, .annotatedProperty.propertyValue'
"MEDIUM"
[
  "http://semanticscience.org/resource/SIO_010451"
]
"splice site"
"MEDIUM"
[
  "http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/SO_0000162"
]
"splice_site"

SO uses underscores in names (arguably a bug in SO, which I may be partly to blame for.. but it is how it is), and indeed if I search using underscores:

$ curl -L -s 'http://www.ebi.ac.uk/spot/zooma/v2/api/services/annotate?propertyValue=splice_site' | jq '.[] | .confidence, .semanticTags, .annotatedProperty.propertyValue'
"GOOD"
[
  "http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/SO_0000162"
]
"splice_site"

However, a poor user is not likely to know to use underscores when searching SO

Recommendations/questions:

1. treat underscore identical to space when both indexing and searching
2. the first hit should return a high confidence match to SIO

[bgood-d4c]

@cmungall I think your indexing suggestion makes sense. (Probably same for -). If you tell zooma to look in the SIO specifically you can get it to give you a GOOD hit for 'splice site'.

[cmungall]

Hi Ben! In this case I have other terms for which I need the deeper SO hierarchy.. but not everything is expected to be in SO so i cant convert my input to underscores... could do two queries i guess :(

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[henrietteharmse]

If Zooma can be more resilient in spite of potential human error that will be helpful.