Re: RemoteSearchable and sorting

2005-10-08 Thread Jeff Rodenburg
As a follow-on to this, the problem appears to have been PBKAC (problem between keyboard and chair). Sorting works fine as long as all indexes being referenced contain the field being sorted. When executing a remote search, the container application (that's me) needs to be sure to bubble up the ex

Is Lucene right for me?

2005-10-08 Thread Sharma, Siddharth
Hi I am complete newbie to Lucene. In fact I'm not even a search guy. I looked up terms such as stemming just yesterday. So this is going to be so much fun ;) Here's the problem I am trying to solve: I work in the B2B space at Staples (an office supplies company in the US). We sell office products

Re: Regarding Lucene and LSI

2005-10-08 Thread adasal
Very interesting. Actually, reading Meet Lucene Part 2 by Otis Gospondnetic and Eric Hatcher there is mention of Egothor and MG4J. Egothor. What is not mentioned is Carrot" which, I think, originally has been used with Egothor but has also been submitted to Lucene CVS. There is a helpful discussion

Re: Abnormal behavior in QueryParser

2005-10-08 Thread Erik Hatcher
On Oct 7, 2005, at 8:14 PM, Zhang, Lisheng wrote: We recently encountered a strange behavior in lucene v1.4.3 QueryParser: we call QueryParser.parse("-1", "myidfield", new StandardAnalyzer()); and get retured query as: -myidfield:1 // apparently we want "myidfield:-1" Currently we can use