custom tag scoring question

2008-10-08 Thread Robert Stewart
We have a custom "tagger" application which identifies certain entities (such as companies, etc.) and applies a "relevance" value to each entity based upon overall relevance in some document. Then we index these "tags" into Lucene index by storing them in an indexed field (same name, different

Access Scoring Values of Lucene for Post-Processing

2008-10-08 Thread excitingComm2
Hi everybody, I am using Lucene for searching items in a online shop. E.g. I search the shop for "shirt" I get a resultset from lucene. Now I want to improve the sort order by calculating the lucene score with my business data, e.g. sales or margin. Is there any possibility to get the scoring val

Re: Only last field indexed

2008-10-08 Thread Erick Erickson
Kalani: You are mistaken to think this is not possible. In fact it is explicitly supported, and I've done it in many situations. These two are entirely identical if you use an analyzer that breaks the stream up on words. doc = new Document() doc.add("myfield", "some text", blah blah) doc.add("myf

Wildcard query ...

2008-10-08 Thread Dragon Fly
Let's say my index has two fields (Type and Description). Type is either 0 or 1 and Description is a string (up to 250 characters). I'd like to execute the following search: +Description:Honda* +Type:0 Would the query run faster if I specify the Type first: +Type:0 +Description:Honda

Re: Single searcher vs Multi Searcher

2008-10-08 Thread Ganesh
Hello Anshum, In my case i have to add /modify records to the current index database and there will be only delete in older index DB. I will not have a situitation of updating the older records. Please brief me about your requirement and how you configured your database. Whether you have any

Re: Only last field indexed

2008-10-08 Thread Kalani Ruwanpathirana
You are doing this kind of a thing? document.add(new Field("id", id1, Field.Store.YES, Field.Index.TOKENIZED)); document.add(new Field("id", id2, Field.Store.YES, Field.Index.TOKENIZED)); I doubt whether this is possible. What happen to the value id1 when the value id2 added to the same filed? me