RE: Help on search

2006-11-08 Thread Alice
Thank you all guys! I'll work on that! -Original Message- From: Vladimir Olenin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: terça-feira, 7 de novembro de 2006 16:58 To: java-user@lucene.apache.org Subject: RE: Help on search You might actually try to look for some 'names database&#x

Re: Help on search

2006-11-07 Thread Dan Armbrust
A few more google searches will probably turn up some reasonable lists of abbreviation rules or lists for common names - I found this right away: (google cache link that converts pdf to html) http://72.14.205.104/search?q=cache:dh7HGiQ-G4wJ:immigrants.byu.edu/Downloads/BritishNames.pdf+common+n

RE: Help on search

2006-11-07 Thread Vladimir Olenin
Lucene notations are for this) - lookup 'synonym' for the name and thus be able to search all forms Or use such DB for custom stemming, as Erick suggested. Vlad -Original Message- From: Erick Erickson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2006 1:27 PM To:

Re: Help on search

2006-11-07 Thread Erick Erickson
;. I'm going to read about the wildcards. Anymore suggestions are very welcome. Thanks -Original Message----- From: Erick Erickson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: terça-feira, 7 de novembro de 2006 15:12 To: java-user@lucene.apache.org Subject: Re: Help on search You really have to

RE: Help on search

2006-11-07 Thread Alice
EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: terça-feira, 7 de novembro de 2006 15:12 To: java-user@lucene.apache.org Subject: Re: Help on search You really have to get away from thinking about lucene like you would a database, or you'll have endless problems . If you want just a bag of name parts, why use s

Re: Help on search

2006-11-07 Thread Erick Erickson
You really have to get away from thinking about lucene like you would a database, or you'll have endless problems . If you want just a bag of name parts, why use separate fields? For instance, index both firstname and lastname in a name field in each document. Then all you have to do to find all

RE: Help on search

2006-11-07 Thread Vladimir Olenin
Search for 'Fred*' if I'm not mistaken... -Original Message- From: Alice [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2006 11:51 AM To: java-user@lucene.apache.org Subject: Help on search Hello! I am totally new to Lucene and I'm trying to use it wit

Help on search

2006-11-07 Thread Alice
Hello! I am totally new to Lucene and I'm trying to use it with my web application. What I'm doing is reading a table from my database line by line and indexing the columns. I read the users data such as First Name, Last Name, Email and so on. I hava a field by column, such as: firstName=