Re: Stemming and exact phrases

2005-10-09 Thread Chris Lu
In some cases, it does. But you can choose to use some Analyzers which only cut words out just by empty spaces. Chris Full-Text Search on Any Databases http://www.dbsight.net On 10/9/05, Anand Kishore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Does stemming result in failu

Stemming and exact phrases

2005-10-09 Thread Anand Kishore
Hi, Does stemming result in failure of exact phrase matches??? -- - Anand

RE: Lucene does not delete old index files after re-indexing?

2005-10-09 Thread Koji Sekiguchi
> If nothing else, I would have thought the "true" third parameter to the > IndexWriter constructor would cause it to remove the old index files once > it had created the new ones. I think FSDirectory.getDirectory( dir, true ) removes the old index files in the dir. Koji > -Original Message

Re: Is Lucene right for me?

2005-10-09 Thread Chris Hostetter
: I am evaluating Lucene for this purpose. I realize I am attempting to use : primarily a search engine as an inclusion/exclusion index solution, where : data about contracts, customers and blocking rules is in the index, and : Lucene provides the class of products available/forbidden for sale. :

Lucene does not delete old index files after re-indexing?

2005-10-09 Thread Jim Coble
I am using Lucene 1.4.3. I have an application that indexes a set of documents. What I want to do is rebuild the index each time I run the application. This seems to work fine, except that the old index file does not get deleted. For example, I ran the program earlier this afternoon and it

Custom sort with multiple fields?

2005-10-09 Thread Jeff Rodenburg
In following the LIA custom sort example, the calculated sort value is based on a field that contains all necessary values, i.e. "x,y" which is split into two values for use in a distance algorithm. Suppose I want a custom sort basis that performs a similar calculation, but is based on a multiple

What is MMapDirectory?

2005-10-09 Thread Koji Sekiguchi
Hello, What is MMapDirectory? I've searched mailing list archive, but cannot find it. I could find the following explanation at Lucene 1.9 CHANGES.txt: 8. Add MMapDirectory, which uses nio to mmap input files. This is still somewhat slower than FSDirectory. However it uses less memory