the core of the search engine has to have certain capabilities, however, because they are next to impossible to add as a layer on top with any efficiency. detecting sentence boundaries outside the core search engine is really hard to do without building another search engine index. if i have to do that, there is no point in using Lucene.
Herb... -----Original Message----- From: Andrzej Bialecki [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 17, 2003 10:26 AM To: Lucene Users List Subject: Re: Contributing to Lucene (was RE: inter-term correlation [was R e: Vector Space Model in Lucene?]) Query expansion can (and I believe should) be done efficiently outside the core of search engine. After all, it's a process of changing the query according to some expansion/rewriting algorithms, but it is still the unchanged search engine that in the end has to answer the new query... -- Best regards, Andrzej Bialecki --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
