Hi Mike I think Chris' email is going to be far more useful to you than Sphinx, even if it's not a ready-made solution - it just doesn't sound like what you want to do fits Sphinx's approach.
Cheers -- Pat On 15/12/2008, at 1:45 PM, gradconnection wrote: > > Thanks Pat, > > I had already come across sphinx when looking which is a good start. I > am unfortunately using Java but there is an interface to sphinx for > java. Not for searching, more to generate relevancy based on user > requirements. So for example, we want to present graduate programs to > graduates in order of relevancy via a wizard. Graduates will fill out > their details/requirements and then we calculate a relevancy score. I > have largely developed my own algorithm to date but it is beginning to > burst at the seems so want to look for an out of the box solution. > > Do you think this is within sphinxs capability? > > Thanks > > Mike > > On Dec 12, 2:00 pm, Pat Allan <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi Mike >> >> I'm not sure about general algorithms, but are you wanting this for >> searching? The Sphinx search daemon allows weighting by specific >> fields, and assigns each result with a relevancy score. >> >> http://sphinxsearch.com/ >> >> I've done a lot of work mixing Ruby and Sphinx (see links below), so >> can help more if that's the language you're using, but there are APIs >> for most other common languages, so hopefully there's a solid >> solution >> no matter what your language of choice is. >> >> http://ts.freelancing-gods.comhttp://riddle.freelancing-gods.com >> >> And you should definitely head along to the Melbourne drinks - even >> if >> I'm not going to be there (out of the country at the moment) ;) >> >> Cheers >> >> -- >> Pat >> e: [email protected] || m: +614 1327 3337 >> w:http://freelancing-gods.com|| t: twitter.com/pat >> discworld:http://ausdwcon.org|| skype: patallan >> >> On 12/12/2008, at 8:15 AM, gradconnection wrote: >> >> >> >>> Hi guys, >> >>> Does anyone know the name for an algorithm that assigns weightings >>> and >>> points to options to generate a relevancy score. >> >>> I am currently building a wizard that requires option selection to >>> be >>> weighted and then results to be ordered by relevancy but I have know >>> idea what this sort of calculation is even called. Even better, if >>> someone knows an open source engine let me know >:-) >> >>> Cheers dudes! >> >>> Mike >> >>> p.s. in melbourne atm and thinking of heading to the Melb drinks so >>> look >>> out for me :-) > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Silicon Beach Australia" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/silicon-beach-australia?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
