>>> Grant Ingersoll 12/26/2006 2:43 PM >>> Hi Eric, >I'm sorry you are not finding what you need. The snowball analyzers >come in a separate jar, in the release zip, under the contrib/ >snowball directory. You may also want/need the analyzers in contrib/ >analyzers for other languages. The README delivered w/ the release
uh.. maybe I'm being dense, but where exactly would I find this directory? It seems that all of the mirrors I look at don't have it, nor even does the main(?) url (i.e. http://www.apache.org/dist/lucene/java/) >probably should be updated to state that this is where you find the >additional analyzers. I will do that shortly (which doesn't help >you, but should help others going forward) thanks. >Have you gone through the demo and the "Getting Started" section: >http://lucene.apache.org/java/docs/gettingstarted.html ? yeah, I did, but all I found there was some info about a demo application, a link to the aforementioned download directory, and some links to the online sources through svn. >There are a number of articles, presentations and books available, >many of which are listed at http://wiki.apache.org/jakarta-lucene/ >Resources I'll take a closer look. I just figured the best documentation would be on the actual lucene site. >Additionally, the "Lucene In Action" book is quite good and most of >it still applies to 2.0 (I think the URL is www.lucenebook.com). I was hoping to find an online overview of how things are supposed to work. i.e. some thing that explains what the important classes are, how to use them, etc.. Also a definition of vocabulary would be nice. Here's a just a brief selection of questions that I had (have) What is javacc? Why do I care? What is snowball? What is a stemmer, and how/why would I use one. What's a term vector? What happens when you add a the same field to a document twice? How do I combine two queries? (I figured some of these out, don't answer them now) I was able to pick out some info from the faq, but a lot of that seems to assume you already know what you're doing. I ended up doing a lot of trial and error to get things going. For instance, it took me forever just to figure out how to combine a couple of queries together. The apparently appropriately named AndQuery class, isn't what it seems, and the javadocs don't say anything that would point me towards the correct class (which seems to be BooleanQuery) >Also, please add an issue or two for any specific places you feel are >unclear or are lacking and hopefully they can be addressed. Patches >are always welcome, especially for documentation and the Wiki only >requires a username password to edit. >-Grant I know much of what I just said is basically just complaining about the level of documentation, and I'd be happy to help, but I'm still feeling a bit overwhelmed with the amount of implied knowledge that seems to be necessary, so picking out specific places is a bit difficult. I suppose the most useful thing would be a better getting started guide that actually explains how things work, rather than just saying "look at this app". eric
