Simple Query Question

2008-08-18 Thread DanaWhite
For some reason I am thinking I read somewhere that if you queried something like: "Eiffel Tower" Lucene would execute the query "Eiffel AND Tower" Basically I am trying to ask, does lucene automatically replaces spaces with the AND operator? Thanks Dana -- View this message in context: http

Searching an Index on Another Machine

2008-08-07 Thread DanaWhite
Hello, I have two machines on the same network, but I want to use one machine to search an index located on the file system of the other machine. Any ideas on how to achieve this? Thanks Dana -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Searching-an-Index-on-Another-Machine-tp188736

Re: Lucene's Mean Average Precision

2008-05-04 Thread DanaWhite
I arrived at this MAP by modifying IndexFiles to use a StopAnalyzer and work in a way that was acceptable for TReC files. The SearchFiles was modified to use a StopAnalyzer and output data in a trec_eval suitable format. Trec_eval reports about 11% at this setting. I am not competing in TReC I

Lucene's Mean Average Precision

2008-05-04 Thread DanaWhite
Hello all, I have been doing some evaluation of Lucene on a TReC collection and get a rather disappointing mean average precision (MAP) of 11%. Other sources seem to report a MAP of about 20%. So I am here to ask all of you who have done some Lucene evaluation - what did you find Lucene's MAP t

TrecDocMaker

2008-04-27 Thread DanaWhite
Greetings, I am trying to use TrecDocMaker so I can successfully index and evaluate lucene on a TReC collection. It seems like I would just repeatedly call makeDocument() until all the Documents have been created, but makeDocument appears to just read forever. In general TrecDocMaker seems like