On Thursday 02 April 2009 15:36:44 David Seltzer wrote: > Hi all, > > > > I'm trying to figure out how to use SpanNearQuery.getSpans(IndexReader) > when working with a result set from a query. > > > > Maybe I have a fundamental misunderstanding of what an IndexReader is - > I'm under the impression that it's a mechanism for sequentially > accessing the documents in an index. So I'm not really sure how that > helps me find the spans inside a search result. > > > > My problem is compounded by the fact that I'm using > ParallelMultiSearcher so I'm not even 100% sure that I know what index > each Hit is located in.
It's the other way around: for span queries a search result is created (internally, by SpanScorer) from the spans resulting from the getSpans() method above. Does that help? Regards, Paul Elschot > > > > All of the examples I find (in LIA and from CNLP) demonstrate on an > in-memory index created for the sake of the example. > > Can anyone give me any guidance on this? > > > > Thanks! > > > > -Dave > > > >