Why PorterStemmer class is not visible out side the package?

2006-06-18 Thread Rakesh Prajapati
Hi, I want to use the PorterStemmer class, but as it is not visible to outside the package I am unable to use it. Is their any specific reason that PorterStemmer is not public? Thanks & Regards, Sr. Software Engineer I- Link Infosoft (G) Pvt . Ltd. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Recency weightage in Lucene

2006-06-18 Thread Chris Hostetter
: Subject: Recency weightage in Lucene : : I am thinking of modifying lucene's current ranking algorithm to include : the document's recency-weightage. So that the latest modified documents : gets preference over earlier modified documents, which makes sense for : news search. FunctionQuery is yo

RE: Lucene.NET Jira Emails?

2006-06-18 Thread Chris Hostetter
: If this is the case, who ever has the karma to fix this, can you take care : of it? I think the proper way to deal with this is to file a Jira request with the Infrastructure Project in the JIRA component, but I'm not 100% sure. : Also, I can't figure out how to assign, close or even edit a JI

RE: Results (Re: Survey: Lucene and Java 1.4 vs. 1.5)

2006-06-18 Thread Bhoomi Mehta
Any specific reason why PorterStemmer class in org.apache.lucene.analysis is not made public? Thank you, Best Regards, Bhoomi Mehta Sr. Project Leader I- Link Infosoft (G) Pvt . Ltd. Ahmedabad Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To un

Re: Recency weightage in Lucene

2006-06-18 Thread prasenjitm
Using the doc-id itself as a recency metric is smart thinking. But the weight is actually a sigmoidal function based on the oldness(i.e. currentTime-documentIndexingTime), hence just cant use the doc-id itself. What is the JIRA BUGid for the lazy fiekd capability. Woudl like to know more abou

RE: Results (Re: Survey: Lucene and Java 1.4 vs. 1.5)

2006-06-18 Thread Robert Engels
Are you sure about the JVM numbers? I would think that user + sys must always be < real (unless maybe the multiprocessor affects this - i.e. sums the processor time used on each). -Original Message- From: Vic Bancroft [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, June 18, 2006 11:55 AM To: [EMA

Re: Recency weightage in Lucene

2006-06-18 Thread Chuck Williams
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 06/17/2006 10:52 PM: > I am thinking of modifying lucene's current ranking algorithm to include the > document's recency-weightage. So that the latest modified documents gets > preference over earlier modified documents, which makes sense for news > search. > > (I b

Re: Soccer-themed question: null fields?

2006-06-18 Thread Chuck Williams
JMA wrote on 06/17/2006 10:16 PM: > 1) Is there a way to find a document that has null fields? > For example, if I have two fields (FIRST_NAME, LAST_NAME) for World Cup > players: > > FIRST_NAME: Brian LAST_NAME: McBride > FIRST_NAME: Agustin LAST_NAME: Delgado > FIRST_NAME: Zinha

Re: Results (Re: Survey: Lucene and Java 1.4 vs. 1.5)

2006-06-18 Thread Vic Bancroft
Robert Engels wrote: Do you have any hard numbers to support this? The last time I checked, gcj had minimal improvement over JVM 1.5. In terms of speed, there is not much difference between native code and classes (see sample timings). However, the pragmatic availability of java 5 environ

[jira] Commented: (LUCENE-605) Make Explanation include information about match/non-match

2006-06-18 Thread paul.elschot (JIRA)
[ http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-605?page=comments#action_12416660 ] paul.elschot commented on LUCENE-605: - I tried removing the Explanation constructor that is deprecated in the demo-fix.patch. One of the uses of this constructor is in the

[jira] Commented: (LUCENE-605) Make Explanation include information about match/non-match

2006-06-18 Thread paul.elschot (JIRA)
[ http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-605?page=comments#action_12416658 ] paul.elschot commented on LUCENE-605: - I like the Boolean for indicating the match. The demo-fix.patch applies cleanly on my working copy, and all tests pass with it. I'll

Recency weightage in Lucene

2006-06-18 Thread PrasenjitM
I am thinking of modifying lucene's current ranking algorithm to include the document's recency-weightage. So that the latest modified documents gets preference over earlier modified documents, which makes sense for news search. (I believe) To do this I have to tinker with TermScorer.score() me

Soccer-themed question: null fields?

2006-06-18 Thread JMA
Greetings, In honor of the world cup and players that use 1 name only, can someone help me with the following... 1) Is there a way to find a document that has null fields? For example, if I have two fields (FIRST_NAME, LAST_NAME) for World Cup players: FIRST_NAME: Brian LAST_NAME: McBri