Re: How are results merged from a multisearcher?

2006-05-23 Thread Tom Emerson
Doug, Thanks much for the clarification. That helps put everything in the right frame for me! -tree On 5/22/06, Doug Cutting [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tom Emerson wrote: Thanks for the clarification. What then is the difference between a MultiSearcher and using an IndexSearcher on a

Re: How are results merged from a multisearcher?

2006-05-22 Thread Doug Cutting
Tom Emerson wrote: Thanks for the clarification. What then is the difference between a MultiSearcher and using an IndexSearcher on a MultiReader? The results should be identical. A MultiSearcher permits use of ParallelMultiSearcher and RemoteSearchable, for parallel and/or distributed

Re: How are results merged from a multisearcher?

2006-05-19 Thread Tom Emerson
Daniel, Thanks for the clarification. What then is the difference between a MultiSearcher and using an IndexSearcher on a MultiReader? On 5/18/06, Daniel Naber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Donnerstag 18 Mai 2006 23:26, Tom Emerson wrote: OK, but what does merged correctly mean? I assume it

How are results merged from a multisearcher?

2006-05-18 Thread Tom Emerson
Greetings, Could someone describe how the results from multiple indices are merged when using a MultiSearcher? My naive intuition is that the scores for documents found in each index could be wildly different, so what criteria is used to merge the scored docs? Many thanks in advance, -tree

Re: How are results merged from a multisearcher?

2006-05-18 Thread Ken Krugler
Greetings, Could someone describe how the results from multiple indices are merged when using a MultiSearcher? My naive intuition is that the scores for documents found in each index could be wildly different, so what criteria is used to merge the scored docs? I believe they are blindly

Re: How are results merged from a multisearcher?

2006-05-18 Thread Daniel Naber
On Donnerstag 18 Mai 2006 18:36, Ken Krugler wrote: Could someone describe how the results from multiple indices are merged when using a MultiSearcher? My naive intuition is that the scores for documents found in each index could be wildly different, so what criteria is used to merge the

Re: How are results merged from a multisearcher?

2006-05-18 Thread Tom Emerson
OK, but what does merged correctly mean? That is really the crux of my question: what is the merging semantics across indices with possibly divergent IDFs. On 5/18/06, Daniel Naber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Donnerstag 18 Mai 2006 18:36, Ken Krugler wrote: Could someone describe how the

Re: How are results merged from a multisearcher?

2006-05-18 Thread Daniel Naber
On Donnerstag 18 Mai 2006 23:26, Tom Emerson wrote: OK, but what does merged correctly mean? I assume it means: querying over several indices gives the same ranking as if the documents were in one index. Regards Daniel -- http://www.danielnaber.de

Re: How are results merged from a multisearcher?

2006-05-18 Thread Ken Krugler
On Donnerstag 18 Mai 2006 18:36, Ken Krugler wrote: Could someone describe how the results from multiple indices are merged when using a MultiSearcher? My naive intuition is that the scores for documents found in each index could be wildly different, so what criteria is used to merge