Hey .. I'm not quite sure i fully understand what you're going to achieve, but maybe TermVectors will help you.
http://ferret.davebalmain.com/api/classes/Ferret/Index/TermVector.html http://ferret.davebalmain.com/trac/wiki/FAQ%3ADefinitions#Whatisaterm-vector http://ferret.davebalmain.com/trac/wiki/FAQ%3ADefinitions#Whatareterm-offsets Ben On 2007-12-20, at 09:38, Benjamin Arai wrote: > Hi, > > I need to map words in a document back to there original word id's > in my > database. For example, if I had the sentence "I eat food" and I was > searching for "food" I would obviously get the document back as a > result. For my particular problem I need to not only get the > document id > but also the id of the match. > > Suppose my original sentence was actually represented as tuples where > each word contains the word and an id number. The new structure would > look something like "(I => 1, eat => 2, food => 3)". In this case I > would actually like to not only get the document but also the document > id number of the match, which in this case would be "3". Is there any > way to do this in Ferret? > > FYI, my goal is to be able to go back an locate the words matches for > further analysis. > > Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you. > > Benjamin Arai > Tabbec LLC > _______________________________________________ > Ferret-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ferret-talk Gruss Ben --- Benjamin Krause http://www.omdb.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Ferret-talk mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ferret-talk
