That's interesting. I suppose you could add the "synonym" of
WildAnimals$ whenever you encountered any of the items in your
list, then when concept searching is called for, search on
WildAnimals$.
Highlighting might be tricky, but certainly do-able, especially with
the capabilities of a MemoryIndex......
Erick
On 5/16/07, Steven Rowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi Charles,
The need presented by your use case sounds very similar to that served
by the SynonymAnalyzer given in Erik Hatcher's and Otis Gospodnetic's
excellent book "Lucene in Action" - take a look:
http://lucenebook.com/
Steve
Charles Patridge wrote:
> I have looked around on Lucene web site as well as some documentation
> but have not found anything to do with Concept Search.
>
> My definition of Concept Search is as follows:
>
> 1. I would have a file (list) of various phrases / N-grams which I
> would like to Lucene to use as a search basis without having to type in
> all these phrases manually, and have Lucene return the results as it
> would normally if a single search query was entered.
>
> 2. An example would be - find !Wild_Animals! - where the "!" would
> indicate that this is a search that would use a file (ie
> Wild_Animals.txt) and read in the various phrases within this file and
perform the
> search in the corpus for these phrases.
>
> 3. The contents of Wild_Animals.txt could look like this:
> BUFFALO
> BEAR
> MOOSE
> COYOTE
> WOLF
> MOUNTAIN GOAT
> MOUNTAIN SHEEP
> DALL SHEEP
> DEER
> KODIAK BEAR
> BROWN BEAR
> BLACK BEAR
> etc etc etc
>
> 4. Is my idea of a Concept Search feasible / doable??? If so, can
> you point me to any documentation that exists whereby this could be done
> within Lucene
>
> Please send any info you have on this to me -
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Thank you in advance for your time and efforts.
>
>
>
> Charles S Patridge - PDPC, Ltd.
> 172 Monce Road - Burlington, CT 06013 USA
> Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Web: http://www.sconsig.com
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