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 :-)
>
> >


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