Re: Vector Model and Relevance Feedback

2005-11-02 Thread mark harwood
> since Lucene doesn't > currently support negative boosts See here for an approach to negative boosts: http://wiki.apache.org/jakarta-lucene/CommunityContributions Cheers Mark ___ Yahoo! Messenger

Re: Vector Model and Relevance Feedback

2005-11-02 Thread Grant Ingersoll
Others can correct me if I am wrong, but I don't think a "pure" Rochio feedback loop is possible in the current state, since Lucene doesn't currently support negative boosts (http://lucene.apache.org/java/docs/queryparsersyntax.html). Having said that, what we do, in a nutshell is similar to w

Re: Vector Model and Relevance Feedback

2005-11-02 Thread Ian Soboroff
Stefan Gusenbauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there an add on for lucene to get a real vector representation? > Does anyone has experiences with this issue? No code, but some small thinking. You can do hacks with boosts and whatnot, but I think in the end you really want a new Query subclas

Vector Model and Relevance Feedback

2005-11-02 Thread Stefan Gusenbauer
I've some thoughts about Lucene and Relevance Feedback. I want to implement some variation of the Roccio Formula and there is the problem. The formula is like this: Query(new) = alpha * Query(old) + beta * Sum(Relevant Documents) - gamma * Sum(Non Relevant Documents) The relevant documents in