it's the problem of near duplication detection. there are many papers addressing this problem. methods like simhash are used.
2011/3/5 Mark <static.void....@gmail.com> > Is there a way one could detect duplicates (say by using some unique hash > of certain fields) and marking a document as a duplicate but not remove it. > > Here is an example: > > Doc 1) This is my test > Doc 2) This is my test > Doc 3) Another test > Doc 4) This is my test > > Doc 1 and 3 should be considered unique whereas 2 and 4 should be marked as > duplicates (of doc 1). > > Can this be easily accomplished? > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org > >