That's not precisely what I was imagining, although it does sound viable
- I was thinking of using standard indexing, and then generating concept
instantiations ("synonyms") at query time. - SteveErick Erickson wrote: > 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 >> > Web: http://pages.prodigy.net/charles_s_patridge >> > Web: http://www.munic.state.ct.us/burlington --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
