Why do you want to link name and confidence in one field? Store confidence as a NumericField and search something like
BooleanQuery bq = new BooleanQuery(); Query nameq = parser.parse(...) or whatever Query confq = NumericRangeQuery.newXxx(...); bq.add(nameq, ...); bq,add(confq, ...); and search using bq. -- Ian. On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 2:20 PM, Deb Lucene <deb.luc...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Group, > > Sorry for cross posting! > > We need to index a document corpus (news articles) with some meta data > features. The meta data are actually company names with some scoring (a > double, between 0 to 1). For example, two documents can be - > > document 1 > (some text - say a technical article from NY times). It comes with the > metadata like - > IBM - 0.5 > Google - 0.9 > Apple - 0.3 > > where 0.5, 0.9, 0.3 are some confidence scores for the company names. > > Similarly, the document 2 is about some IT article and then the meta data > are like - > IBM - 0.6 > Google - 0.1 > Apple - 0.4 > > now we can index the documents based on the contents or the company names > easily. But here the problem is we need to create a "field" where the > company names and the scores are linked. So that we can search something > like - > > query = where the "company name" (a field) is "IBM" and the scores of IBM > is > 0.5. > So in that case the document 2 will be retrieved. > > I am wondering if anyone has ideas about using the company names and scores > (linked) together as a field. > > Thanks in advance, > > --d --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org
