Erik Hatcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hacking Similarity wasn't covered in LIA for one simple reason - > Lucene's built-in scoring mechanism really is good enough for almost > all projects. The book was written for developers of those projects. > > Personally, I've not had to hack Similarity, though I've toyed with it > in prototypes and am using a minor tweak (turning off length > normalization for the "title" field) for the lucenebook.com book > indexing. > >> There are some hints >> on the Lucene site, but nothing complete. If I muddle it out before >> anything gets contributed, I'll try to write something up, but don't >> expect anything too soon... > > And maybe you'd contribute what you write to LIA 2nd edition :)
Maybe that too. ;-) What we're working on isn't aimed at the site admin who wants to tweak site search, it's more aimed at the IR researcher. Among other things it handles Cranfield-style batch experiments and many standard IR test collections, for example. Ian --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
