I created an initial GSOC 2012 page here: http://wiki.apache.org/lucene-java/SummerOfCode2012
simon On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 12:26 PM, mark harwood <markharw...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: >>>Does anyone have any ideas? > > A framework for match metadata? > > Similar to the way tokenization was changed to allow tokenizers to to enrich > a stream of tokens with arbitrary "attributes", Scorers could provide > "MatchAttributes" to provide arbitrary metadata about the stream of matches > they produce. > Same model is used - callers decide in advance which attribute decorations > they want to consume and Scorers modify a singleton object which can be > cloned if multiple attributes need to be retained by the caller. > > Helps support highlighting, explain and enables communication of added > information between query objects in the tree. > LUCENE-1999 was an example of a horrible work-around where additional match > information that was required was smuggled through by bit-twiddling the score > - this is because score is the only bit of match context we currently pass > in Lucene APIs. > > Cheers > Mark > > > > > ________________________________ > From: Robert Muir <rcm...@gmail.com> > To: dev@lucene.apache.org > Sent: Friday, 2 March 2012, 10:30 > Subject: GSOC 2012? > > Hello, > > I was asked by a student if we are participating in GSOC this year. I > hope the answer is yes? > > If we are planning to, I think it would be good if we came up with a > list on the wiki of potential tasks. Does anyone have any ideas? > > One suggested idea I had (similar to LUCENE-2959 last year) would be > to add a flexible query expansion framework. > > -- > lucidimagination.com > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@lucene.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@lucene.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@lucene.apache.org
