Re: search-time facetting in Lucene

2013-05-05 Thread Shai Erera
Hi Clive, In order to use Lucene facets you need to make indexing time decisions. It's not that you don't make these decisions anyway, even with Solr -- for example, you need to decide how to tokenize the fields by which you want to facet, or in Lucene 4.0 index them as SortedSetDocValuesField. I

search-time facetting in Lucene

2013-05-05 Thread kiwi clive
Hello all Lucene version 3.6.1. Sorry if this is a really stupid question, but is it possible to use search-time facetting on an existing lucene index without the need to reindex? My (limited) understanding is that FacetsCollector will pull facet data from indexes that have been created with

Re: Best practices in boosting by proximity?

2013-05-05 Thread Gili Nachum
Hi Karl, I guess I must have individual terms in my query, along side the SHOULD phrases with slops, since I don't want to miss on results , even if the terms distance is huge. Slop - will enrich the phrases with them. Shingles - Good idea. I'll index bi-grams if performance because an issue. In