Is Lucene suitable for one-time index and one-time search ?

2002-09-21 Thread Mailing Lists Account
Hi, I need to search a bunch of documents.Each document needs to be searched only once. That means once I build the index and search it, I have no need for that index and the document again. The number of documents to be searched in the above process can be very large. If this process needs to

Re: Term boosting

2002-09-21 Thread Alex Murzaku
Wouldn't field boosting (the new capability added as of http://www.mail-archive.com/lucene-dev@jakarta.apache.org/msg01727.html) be a simpler solution? I would just set the boost for the 'keywords' field to something higher than one depending on your requirements. As for the value of the booster,

Re: Term boosting

2002-09-21 Thread Clemens Marschner
I had the same problem as Brian. But since you have to rewrite the query anyway to do a query in two different fields it makes no difference if you use term or field boosting. Performance is the same. For new applications I'd say field boosting is a little simpler because you save on some

Re: Term boosting

2002-09-21 Thread cmad
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Re: Is Lucene suitable for one-time index and one-time search ?

2002-09-21 Thread Doug Cutting
Mailing Lists Account wrote: I need to search a bunch of documents.Each document needs to be searched only once. That means once I build the index and search it, I have no need for that index and the document again. This does not sound like the problem that Lucene is designed to solve.

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2002-09-21 Thread John Caron
i am just starting to use lucene, and it it very impressive! I hope to try Dmitri's new term vectors when he gets them in, in order to do vector model research, in particular LSA. i will port my existing code to use lucene framework, and make it available when it is ready. I am appending a