Re: trying to boost a phrase higher than its individual words

2005-10-28 Thread Andy Lee
On Oct 28, 2005, at 8:17 PM, Chris Hostetter wrote: One thing to keep in mind is that if you have things you are adding to hte query to restrict the results, but you don't want them to contribute to the score, then try using a Filter instead. If you can't find an easy way to replace a query

Re: Sorting and Ranking

2005-10-28 Thread Chris Hostetter
: How does sorting and ranking working together in : Lucene? Are they mutually exclusive? If the search : result is ranked first, then sorting may not have much : value. If sorting is done first, then ranking doesnt : have any meaning? Scoring (which is what i think you mean by ranking) is orth

Re: trying to boost a phrase higher than its individual words

2005-10-28 Thread Chris Hostetter
: Okay, I looked at the explanations and realized part of the problem : was that I was applying a sort field to the search results, which I that would definitely cause the boosts to be un-useful :) : But I also do need to do some tuning, because I'm adding other stuff : to the query that is also

Re: Sentence boundary storage

2005-10-28 Thread Chris Hostetter
: One thing that I know has bogged me is when matching a phrase where I : would expect mathematical formula (which is "just a subphrase"). I : would have liked the phrase-query to extend as far as it wishes but not : passed a given token... would this be possible ? : Presumably a period token and

Re: geographical search

2005-10-28 Thread Chris Hostetter
: put some text. Then i did some range queries like this : : queryString=foo AND country:United States AND : [EMAIL PROTECTED]:[-74.04047986086957 TO -73.95352333913044] AND : [EMAIL PROTECTED]:[40.70662093913044 TO 40.793577460869564] : It worked well with positive coordinates in Europe, not in t

Sorting and Ranking

2005-10-28 Thread Chandramohan
How does sorting and ranking working together in Lucene? Are they mutually exclusive? If the search result is ranked first, then sorting may not have much value. If sorting is done first, then ranking doesnt have any meaning? thanks! _

Re: Sentence boundary storage

2005-10-28 Thread Paul Libbrecht
One thing that I know has bogged me is when matching a phrase where I would expect mathematical formula (which is "just a subphrase"). I would have liked the phrase-query to extend as far as it wishes but not passed a given token... would this be possible ? Presumably a period token and this fe

Sentence boundary storage

2005-10-28 Thread Grant Ingersoll
Hi, Was wondering what people's experience is with storing sentence (or other) boundary information in Lucene. For instance, for phrase queries, you may not want to match when two terms lie on either side of a sentence boundary. I know for phrase queries the common approach is to make the p

Re: trying to boost a phrase higher than its individual words

2005-10-28 Thread Andy Lee
On Oct 28, 2005, at 10:38 AM, Erik Hatcher wrote: So in this case a matching document must have both terms? Or could it just have one or the other? If it must have both, you could try a PhraseQuery with a slop of Integer.MAX_VALUE. PhraseQuery scores closer matches higher. Good to know,

RE: Search problems

2005-10-28 Thread Sharma, Siddharth
I figured out the problem when I copied the document from the clipboard. It had trailing spaces. After I changed the database query to have an ltrim(rtrim( for each query, prior to indexing, its fine now. -Original Message- From: Sharma, Siddharth Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2005 4:35 P

Re: trying to boost a phrase higher than its individual words

2005-10-28 Thread Erik Hatcher
On 27 Oct 2005, at 19:13, Andy Lee wrote: I have a situation where I want to search for individual words in a phrase as well as the phrase itself. For example, if the user enters ["classical music"] (with quotes) I want to find documents that contain "classical music" (the phrase) *and* th

Re: Usage RAMDirectory

2005-10-28 Thread Rob Young
How important is it that the search index be absolutely up to date? I read from a RAMDirectory based index but the actual index is in a FSDirectory. The way I managed it was to have the RAMDirectory periodically (two hourly) reloaded. My data doesn't have to be completely up to date so this wor

Usage RAMDirectory

2005-10-28 Thread Tobias Lütticke
Hi, for the last days I had the thought lingering in my mind that somehow I had to use the RAMDirectory. I have a production system with plenty of memory so that would be nice. However, it's a update-happy application and the index needs to be persistent (meaning FSDirectory). Therefore I ca

geographical search

2005-10-28 Thread Philippe Guillard
Hello here, I'd like to do some geographical searches. Can somebody can tell me where to go ? At the moment i put the longitude and latitude in the index as i would put some text. Then i did some range queries like this : queryString=foo AND country:United States AND [EMAIL PROTECTED]:[-74.0