Re: Proximity Query Parser

2006-09-01 Thread Paul Elschot
On Friday 01 September 2006 19:46, Mark Miller wrote: > Eric also gave me the idea of using a SpanNear with maximum slop as a > boolean to connect spans. Using this and SpanOr seems to make my time spent > on the distribution of proximity clauses a little foolish :) Is that true? There is practice

Re: Proximity Query Parser

2006-09-01 Thread Mark Miller
Eric also gave me the idea of using a SpanNear with maximum slop as a boolean to connect spans. Using this and SpanOr seems to make my time spent on the distribution of proximity clauses a little foolish :) Is that true? Is there any disadvantage to the max slop Spannear, SpanOr solution? Any adva

Re: Proximity Query Parser

2006-09-01 Thread Mark Miller
Thanks for the tip Paul. It is embarrassing, but I only realized how OrSpan queries worked a day or two ago based on a tip from Eric. The way I assumed it would create the spans before was just wrong and I never had researched further. Now I see that it would be a nice optimization for what I have

Re: Proximity Query Parser

2006-09-01 Thread Paul Elschot
On Friday 01 September 2006 12:54, Mark Miller wrote: > Hi Paul, > > I also have to treat things differently depending on if I am in a > proximity clause or boolean clause. A wildcard in a boolean is mapped to > a wildcard query. A wildcard in a proximity is mapped to a regex span > that has b

Re: Proximity Query Parser

2006-09-01 Thread Mark Miller
Paul Elschot wrote: Mark, On Thursday 31 August 2006 23:18, Mark Miller wrote: I am not a huge fan of the queryparser's syntax so I have started an open source project to create a viable alternative. I could really use some helping testing it out. The more I can get it tested the better ch

Re: Proximity Query Parser

2006-09-01 Thread Paul Elschot
Mark, On Thursday 31 August 2006 23:18, Mark Miller wrote: > I am not a huge fan of the queryparser's syntax so I have started an > open source project to create a viable alternative. I could really use > some helping testing it out. The more I can get it tested the better > chance it has of se

Proximity Query Parser

2006-08-31 Thread Mark Miller
I am not a huge fan of the queryparser's syntax so I have started an open source project to create a viable alternative. I could really use some helping testing it out. The more I can get it tested the better chance it has of serving the community. The parser is called Qsol. I am right up again