I'v been thinking about a similar problem. However, it seems that the
similarity score returned by a search is only relevant within those search
results. You can't compare the similarity scores from two different searches.
I think you will have to compute the similarities yourself using the t
> 2) independent of the scores being different, it is not safe to try and
> pick a score threshold, this is mentioned in the FAQ...
>
> http://wiki.apache.org/jakarta-lucene/LuceneFAQ#head-912c1f237bb00259185353182948e5935f0c2f03
That link appears to be referring to normalized scores (everythin
nse to parse the documents
before handing them to Lucene such that you're creating a Lucene
Document for each paragraph rather than for each entire file.
Slicing the granularity of a domain into Documents is a fascinating
topic :)
Erik
On Feb 22, 2006, at 1:00 PM, John Hami
I'm new to Lucene and was wondering what is the best way to perform a search on
a subdirectory or subdirectories within the index? My thought at this point is
to build a query to first search for files in the required directory(ies) and
then use that query to make a QueryFilter and use that Que
