Using Lucene with an existing dataset

Hello, I am completely new to Lucene... I would like to implement a searching algorithm called GBRank and test it using Lucene on an existing dataset ... Is it possible ? I dont know how to go about this. Can anyone give me directions on how to proceed? Thanks, Hari

Re: Using Lucene with an existing dataset

Check out the similarity implementation here - http://lucene.apache.org/java/3_0_1/api/core/org/apache/lucene/search/Similarity.html , to start thinking about custom ranking algorithms. You can open a IndexSearcher and set the similarity herewith - http://lucene.apache.org/java/2_4_0/api/org/