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Robert Muir commented on LUCENE-1606: ------------------------------------- mike, here is a more complex example of the ping-pong: a wildcard of abcd*12?4 it has to seek to abcd first because of the * (the loop stops me) the ping-pong from the term dictionary, returns say abcdk1000 it moves me past the giant monster. now i know enough to seek to abcdk12\u00004 in this case its nice, the TermEnum moved me past it in one seek. sometimes its not so nice, if the TermEnum gave me abcda, i'm not past the monster. all i can do is generate the next possible term that won't put me into a DFA reject state, which is abcda\u0000... forcing the enum to move me forwards. maybe i seek to abcda\u0000, and it gives me abcdaa back, ill do the same thing again. the reason is, somewhere down the line there could be abcdaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa1234 :) > Automaton Query/Filter (scalable regex) > --------------------------------------- > > Key: LUCENE-1606 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-1606 > Project: Lucene - Java > Issue Type: New Feature > Components: Search > Reporter: Robert Muir > Assignee: Robert Muir > Priority: Minor > Fix For: 3.1 > > Attachments: automaton.patch, automatonMultiQuery.patch, > automatonmultiqueryfuzzy.patch, automatonMultiQuerySmart.patch, > automatonWithWildCard.patch, automatonWithWildCard2.patch, > BenchWildcard.java, LUCENE-1606-flex.patch, LUCENE-1606-flex.patch, > LUCENE-1606.patch, LUCENE-1606.patch, LUCENE-1606.patch, LUCENE-1606.patch, > LUCENE-1606.patch, LUCENE-1606.patch, LUCENE-1606.patch, LUCENE-1606.patch, > LUCENE-1606.patch, LUCENE-1606.patch, LUCENE-1606_nodep.patch > > > Attached is a patch for an AutomatonQuery/Filter (name can change if its not > suitable). > Whereas the out-of-box contrib RegexQuery is nice, I have some very large > indexes (100M+ unique tokens) where queries are quite slow, 2 minutes, etc. > Additionally all of the existing RegexQuery implementations in Lucene are > really slow if there is no constant prefix. This implementation does not > depend upon constant prefix, and runs the same query in 640ms. > Some use cases I envision: > 1. lexicography/etc on large text corpora > 2. looking for things such as urls where the prefix is not constant (http:// > or ftp://) > The Filter uses the BRICS package (http://www.brics.dk/automaton/) to convert > regular expressions into a DFA. Then, the filter "enumerates" terms in a > special way, by using the underlying state machine. Here is my short > description from the comments: > The algorithm here is pretty basic. Enumerate terms but instead of a > binary accept/reject do: > > 1. Look at the portion that is OK (did not enter a reject state in the > DFA) > 2. Generate the next possible String and seek to that. > the Query simply wraps the filter with ConstantScoreQuery. > I did not include the automaton.jar inside the patch but it can be downloaded > from http://www.brics.dk/automaton/ and is BSD-licensed. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: java-dev-h...@lucene.apache.org