Is this an inadvertent re-post or is there still something you're wondering about?
Erick On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 9:14 AM, Niels Ott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi everybody, > > I need to query for documents not only for search terms but also for > numeric values (or other general types). Let me try to explain with a > hypothetical example. > > Assuming there is a value for the number words in each document (or the > number of person names, or whatever), I would want to formulate a query like > "Give me documents containing 'jack johnson' AND with token_count > 250". > > I've been working with Lucene before and the keyword part is easy, but what > would be a good solution to query for numbers etc.? > > One first idea I had was storing the numbers (which are basically a > HashMap<String,Double>) in the index in some way or the other. But it is not > at all obvious for me how to query them then. > > Another thing I could think of would be using a separate database of any > type, but then how to bring those two together in a way that makes sense? > > Any pointers to useful resources and any types of hints are welcome! :-) > > Best, > > Niels > > > -- > Niels Ott > Computational Linguist (B.A.) > http://www.drni.de/niels/ > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
