Hi there
Lucene calucaltes the string similarity between two strings s1 and s2 according
to the formula
Similarity = Levenshtein-Distance(s1,s2)/min(Length(s1),Length(s2))
I would have thought Lucene would divide by the length of the longer string. In
particular, the above formula could - in m
Hi everyone
We are using Lucene to search for possible duplicates in an address database.
We create an index with a document for each person in the database. Each
document has a field with one term for the first name, a field with one term
for the last name and so on. I think in this setting it
Hello list
I'm looking for something like Field.setBoost(float boost) that can be set at
search time. The reason for this is that we would like to provide user
(client-side) configurable search queries, where the user can assign weights to
the fields (all fields, not just those mentioned in the
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I build my queries programmatically with Term, NumericTerm, FuzzyQuery,
BooleanQuery etc. In particular, I do not use QueryParser to build my query
from a string. Still, I would like to first run the values for my terms through
an analzyer (more precisely, the same analyzer that I us
