RE: Research Question

2009-03-19 Thread bruce
. thanks -Original Message- From: Erick Erickson [mailto:erickerick...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2009 10:31 AM To: java-user@lucene.apache.org Subject: Re: Research Question Well, it seems that your problem, as stated, is not soluble. You've stated that the instructors have

Re: Research Question

2009-03-19 Thread Grant Ingersoll
What you are trying to do is called record linkage. There is a fair amount of info in the Lucene archives on this, see http://www.lucidimagination.com/search/?q=record+linkage As Erick says, you will need more info than just the name to do this. I doubt you will be able to get completely

Re: Research Question

2009-03-19 Thread Erick Erickson
Well, it seems that your problem, as stated, is not soluble. You've stated that the instructors have the same name but given us no clue as to what other information you have access to. So there's nothing to distinguish them. So what other information do you have about the particular instructors? I