you're describing ad-hoc solutions to a problem that have an effect, but not one that is easily predictable. one can concoct all sorts of combinations of the query operators that would have something of the effect that i am describing. crossing sentence boundaries, however, can't be done without having some sentence boundaries as a reference. on top of this, there is a relatively simple concept which, if implemented, takes away all the ad-hocness of the solutions and replaces it with a something that is both linguistically and mathematically sound and on top of which won't materially make the engine core more complicated. that concept is that multiword queries are mostly multiword terms and they can't cross sentence boundaries according to the rules of English.
Herb.... -----Original Message----- From: Doug Cutting [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 14, 2003 3:33 PM To: Lucene Users List Subject: Re: inter-term correlation [was Re: Vector Space Model in Lucene?] Certainly there are lots of scoring algorithms that one cannot easily implement with Lucene. I'm just not yet clear on what you need to do that Lucene cannot support. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
