On Monday 03 July 2006 19:52, Patricio wrote: > Hello, I'm novice in Java. > I try to understand how the query terms are matched with the index terms to > calculate the Hits. > > I thought that the class "IndexSearcher" was responsible for this process, > but apparently the classes "Scorer" and "HitCollector" are essential to > determine the retrieved documents. > > I looked for this information in "Lucene in Action", but unfortunately I > couldn't find enough details (in Chapter 3.2) about this topic. > > Does somebody know where takes place (source code) this comparison?
One place is PrefixQuery.rewrite(IndexReader). Here a prefixed query term, for example prefer*, is replaced by terms in the index, for example by prefer, preferable, prefered, preference. Regards, Paul Elschot --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
