anybody can help ? On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 11:22 PM, Alex <azli...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Otis and thank your for helping me out. > > Sorry for the late reply. > > > > Although a Phrase query or TermQuery would be perfectly suited in some > cases, this will not work in my case. > > Basically my application's search feature is a single field "à la Google" > and the user can be looking for a lot of different things... > > For example the user can search for > "Chinese Restaurant in New York USA" > or maybe just > "Chinese Restaurant" (which should be understood as "nearby Chinese > Restaurant" > or maybe > "Chinese Retaurant at 12 Main St. New York" > or > "1223 Main Street New York" > > > > So basically I will get many different query structures depending on the > user's intent/meaning/logic and I think I need to figure out a good analysis > algorithm to get Locations as acurately as possible. > > As a first step in my algo I am trying to isolate/identify a potential > LocationType from the query string. > So my idea was to separate each words and use them to query my Index for > LocationTypes that would best match what's included in the query. > I could then get the best matching LocationTypes based on how it scored > against the luicene query and then move on to the next step of my algo which > would try to find another potential feature of the query such as the > presence of a Country name or City name etc .... > > That's why a phrase query would not be appropriate here as this would mean > that the entire query string would be used and would most of the times > return no relevant LocationTypes. > > Once I have analysed the query string and isolated the various features > (LocationType, City Name, Country Name , Address .... ) I could maybe create > a Boolean Query where I would use all that was fetched earlier > > > So basically I'm not sure what feature of Lucene I should use here in the > first step of the algo to only find the most relevant LocationTypes and > filter out the ones that are not relevant enough. > > > Any help and any thoughts on my approach greatly appreciated. > > > Thanks in advance. > > Cheers, > > Alex. > > >
