Melissa: These questions are answered in the Lucene FAQ, which is located at
http://www.lucene.com/cgi-bin/faq/faqmanager.cgi However, if I correctly understand your fundamental question, my understanding is that Lucene basically uses the vector model of IR. Joshua [EMAIL PROTECTED] Per Obscurius...www.ics.uci.edu/~jmadden Joshua Madden: Information Scientist, Musician, Philosopher-At-Tall It's that moment of dawning comprehension that I live for--Bill Watterson My opinions are too rational and insightful to be those of any organization. On Thu, 7 Mar 2002, Melissa Mifsud wrote: > Hi again! > > I should really reword my question as follows: > > On which criteria are relevant documents chosen given a particular query > > and > > once retrieved, how are these documents ranked? > > The techniques by which this is done will then determine what type of > IR model Lucene implements. > > Thanks again! > > Melissa > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
