Re: Study Group (WAS Re: Normalized Scoring)

2005-02-07 Thread David Spencer
You might want to see a post I just made to the thread with this long subject: "single field code ready - Re: URL to compare 2 Similarity's ready-- Re: Scoring benchmark evaluation. Was RE: How to proceed with Bug 31841 - MultiSearcher problems with Similarity.docFreq() ?" I've done an exampl

Re: Study Group (WAS Re: Normalized Scoring)

2005-02-07 Thread David Spencer
Doug Cutting wrote: Paul Elschot wrote: I learned a lot by adding some javadocs to such classes. I suppose Doug added the Expert markings, but I don't know their precise purpose. The "Expert" declaration is meant to indicate that most users should not need to understand the feature. Lucene's API

RE: Study Group (WAS Re: Normalized Scoring)

2005-02-07 Thread Kelvin Tan
; > -Original Message- > From: Otis Gospodnetic [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: > Monday, February 07, 2005 12:15 PM To: Lucene Developers List > Subject: Re: Study Group (WAS Re: Normalized Scoring) > > I think I see what you are after.  I'm after the same knowledge.

Re: Study Group (WAS Re: Normalized Scoring)

2005-02-07 Thread Doug Cutting
Paul Elschot wrote: I learned a lot by adding some javadocs to such classes. I suppose Doug added the Expert markings, but I don't know their precise purpose. The "Expert" declaration is meant to indicate that most users should not need to understand the feature. Lucene's API seeks to be both sim

RE: Study Group (WAS Re: Normalized Scoring)

2005-02-07 Thread Joaquin Delgado
PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 07, 2005 12:15 PM To: Lucene Developers List Subject: Re: Study Group (WAS Re: Normalized Scoring) I think I see what you are after. I'm after the same knowledge. :) The only things that I can recommend are books: Modern Information Retrieval Managing Gigaby

Re: Study Group (WAS Re: Normalized Scoring)

2005-02-07 Thread Roxana Angheluta
I think I see what you are after. I'm after the same knowledge. :) The only things that I can recommend are books: Modern Information Retrieval Managing Gigabytes And online resources like: http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/mg/ (note the weird host name) http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/~hear

Re: Study Group (WAS Re: Normalized Scoring)

2005-02-07 Thread mark harwood
There are a series of good course notes from the Stanford course on IR: http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs276/handouts/lecture1.pdf to http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs276/handouts/lecture16.pdf These are from the course by Hinrich Schutze who co-authored "Foundations of Statistical Natural Languag

Re: Study Group (WAS Re: Normalized Scoring)

2005-02-07 Thread Otis Gospodnetic
I think I see what you are after. I'm after the same knowledge. :) The only things that I can recommend are books: Modern Information Retrieval Managing Gigabytes And online resources like: http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/mg/ (note the weird host name) http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/

Re: Study Group (WAS Re: Normalized Scoring)

2005-02-07 Thread Kelvin Tan
Hey Paul, thanks for responding. On Sun, 6 Feb 2005 13:26:24 +0100, Paul Elschot wrote: > > Tuning the scoring is difficult because one needs to avoid the trap > of optimizing for the test collection and test queries at hand. The > interplays between query structure, coord(), idf() and tf() add to

Re: Study Group (WAS Re: Normalized Scoring)

2005-02-06 Thread Paul Elschot
On Sunday 06 February 2005 10:14, Kelvin Tan wrote: > Wouldn't it be great if we can form a study-group of Lucene folks who want to take the "next step"? I feel uneasy posting non-Lucene specific questions to dev or user even if its related to IR. > > Feels to me like there could be a couple like

Study Group (WAS Re: Normalized Scoring)

2005-02-06 Thread Kelvin Tan
Wouldn't it be great if we can form a study-group of Lucene folks who want to take the "next step"? I feel uneasy posting non-Lucene specific questions to dev or user even if its related to IR. Feels to me like there could be a couple like us, who didn't do a dissertation in IR, but would like