Hi Chris, Yes, people have done classification with Lucene before. Have a look at http://search-lucene.com/?q=classifier&fc_project=Lucene for some discussions and actual code (in old JIRA issues)
Otis ---- Sematext :: http://sematext.com/ :: Solr - Lucene - Nutch Lucene ecosystem search :: http://search-lucene.com/ ----- Original Message ---- > From: Chris Spencer <chriss...@gmail.com> > To: java-user@lucene.apache.org > Sent: Wed, April 6, 2011 7:46:45 PM > Subject: Indexing Non-Textual Data > > Hi, > > I'm new to Lucene, so forgive me if this is a newbie question. I have a > dataset composed of several thousand lists of 128 integer features, each > list associated with a class label. Would it be possible to use Lucene as a > classifier, by indexing the label with respect to these integer features, > and then classify a new list by finding the most similar labels with Lucene? > > I'm specifically interested in doing so through the PyLucene API, so I've > been going through the PyLucene samples, but they only seem to involve > indexing text, not continuous features (understandably). Could anyone point > me to an example that indexes non-textual data? > > I think the project Lire (http://www.semanticmetadata.net/lire/) is using > Lucene to do something similar to this, although with an emphasis on image > features. I've dug into their code a little, but I'm not a strong Java > programmer, so I'm not sure how they're pulling it off, nor how I might > translate this into the PyLucene API. In your opinion, is this a practical > use of Lucene? > > Regards, > Chris > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org
