Re: What is text searching algorithm in Lucene 4.3.1

2013-07-17 Thread Jack Krupansky
class. Unfortunately, that has less Javadoc, although it does cite a key paper on that approach. -- Jack Krupansky -Original Message- From: Erick Erickson Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2013 8:17 AM To: java-user Subject: Re: What is text searching algorithm in Lucene 4.3.1 Note: as of Lucene

Re: What is text searching algorithm in Lucene 4.3.1

2013-07-17 Thread Erick Erickson
Note: as of Lucene 4.x, you can plug in your own scoring algorithm, it ships with several variants (e.g. BM25) so you can look at the pluggable scoring where all the code for the various algorithms is concentrated. Erick On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 12:40 AM, Jack Krupansky wrote: > The source code i

Re: What is text searching algorithm in Lucene 4.3.1

2013-07-16 Thread Jack Krupansky
The source code is what most people use to understand how Lucene actually works. In some cases the Javadoc comments will point to published papers or web sites for algorithms or approaches. -- Jack Krupansky -Original Message- From: Vinh Đặng Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2013 10:54 PM To: