Include BM25 in Lucene?

2006-10-17 Thread J.Zhu
Hi, All, I am an enthusiastic user of Lucene and it is very helpful to my projects at hand. As probabilistic models such as BM25 are very popular among research communities now, do you have any plan to incorporate some of them in future Lucene release? I believe that will make Lucene even more pop

Re: Include BM25 in Lucene?

2006-10-17 Thread Grant Ingersoll
Hi Jianhan, I am not aware, however, of anyone working on a BM25 implementation. We are a volunteer project, though, so we are always open to contributions! -Grant On Oct 17, 2006, at 5:50 AM, J.Zhu wrote: Hi, All, I am an enthusiastic user of Lucene and it is very helpful to my proje

RE: Include BM25 in Lucene?

2006-10-17 Thread J.Zhu
Subject: Re: Include BM25 in Lucene? Hi Jianhan, I am not aware, however, of anyone working on a BM25 implementation. We are a volunteer project, though, so we are always open to contributions! -Grant On Oct 17, 2006, at 5:50 AM, J.Zhu wrote: > Hi, All, > > I am an enthusiastic user

Re: Include BM25 in Lucene?

2006-10-17 Thread Vic Bancroft
J.Zhu wrote: If I would like to contribute, what should I do? I am not a good Java developer myself though. Can I work with someone also interested? In some of my group's usage of lucene over large document collections, we have split the documents across several machines. This has lead to a

RE: Include BM25 in Lucene?

2006-10-17 Thread J.Zhu
EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 17 October 2006 13:44 To: java-dev@lucene.apache.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Include BM25 in Lucene? J.Zhu wrote: >If I would like to contribute, what should I do? I am not a good Java >developer myself though. Can I work with someone also interested? >

Re: Include BM25 in Lucene?

2006-10-17 Thread Chuck Williams
Vic Bancroft wrote on 10/17/2006 02:44 AM: > In some of my group's usage of lucene over large document collections, > we have split the documents across several machines. This has lead to > a concern of whether the inverse document frequency was appropriate, > since the score seems to be dependant

Re: Include BM25 in Lucene?

2006-10-19 Thread Vic Bancroft
Chuck Williams wrote: Vic Bancroft wrote on 10/17/2006 02:44 AM: In some of my group's usage of lucene over large document collections, we have split the documents across several machines. This has lead to a concern of whether the inverse document frequency was appropriate, since the score