Can you share you code? We would love to add it to the contributions area.
--Peter On Wednesday, September 25, 2002, at 11:39 AM, Joshua O'Madadhain wrote: > On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, Peter Carlson wrote: > >> I have used intermedia in the past and found that it had a few >> advantages and disadvantages compared to Lucene. >> >> Advantages of Intermedia >> 4) Supports term expansion and contraction >> >> Now items 3 and 4 of Intermedia advantages can be added as Features to >> Lucene, but are not currently. > > I'm not sure what you mean by "supports term expansion". In the IR > community, there are many different mechanisms for term expansion; > perhaps > in the database community the term is more restrictive. My > understanding > is that the only thing you need in order to be able to expand terms (or > queries) is to be able to modify queries, which you can certainly do > under > Lucene. (A research project of mine uses Lucene as the core for a > search > engine that does query expansion, among other things.) Yes, I had to > write some code to do this, but static term expansion, in which each > term > is expanded to a fixed list of other terms (which may be > specifiable/modifiable by administrators or users), is pretty > straightforward to code (my project used a considerably more > sophisticated > mechanism). > > If what you mean is that there is no specific API for term expansion in > Lucene, that's true, but I'm not sure how much value such an API would > add > to Lucene. > > Joshua O'Madadhain > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Per > Obscurius...www.ics.uci.edu/~jmadden > Joshua O'Madadhain: Information Scientist, Musician, > Philosopher-At-Tall > It's that moment of dawning comprehension that I live for--Bill > Watterson > My opinions are too rational and insightful to be those of any > organization. > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
