On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 07:30:36PM +0100, Alex Fenton wrote: > Hi > > I'm considering using Ferret in v2 of Weft QDA, a wxruby desktop > application for textual analysis in social science. > > Ferret seems a very impressive package that meets and exceeds my > requirements, but I can't find how to retrieve specific details about > the results. > > I'd like to be able to run fairly simple queries. I then need to look at > each term match, and get its document id and the character (not byte) > position at which it occurs in the source document. > > My semi-illiterate reading of search.c suggests this is available, but > looking at the SearchHits returned by a SpanTermQuery, they don't seem > to contain the methods I'm looking for.
Without fully understanding what you want to achieve, I guess TermVectors are what you're looking for. I'm not sure if they're working on characters or bytes, though. Jens -- Jens Krämer webit! Gesellschaft für neue Medien mbH Schnorrstraße 76 | 01069 Dresden Telefon +49 351 46766-0 | Telefax +49 351 46766-66 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.webit.de Amtsgericht Dresden | HRB 15422 GF Sven Haubold, Hagen Malessa _______________________________________________ Ferret-talk mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ferret-talk
