NOT, exclude, prohibit, !, -

2003-07-24 Thread Jon Crowell
Hi. I've been reading the Query Syntax page at http://jakarta.apache.org/lucene/docs/queryparsersyntax.html and I'm not sure I understand the difference between the prohibit operator (-) and the exclude operator (!). It seems that NOT is the exclude operator and the short form is !. I quote:

RE: Postgres and lucene

2003-07-07 Thread Jon Crowell
Is this a JDBC issue? If so, see http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-jdbc/ > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, July 07, 2003 3:22 PM > To: Lucene Users List > Subject: Re: Postgres and lucene > > > I'm trying to index in a single

RE: misspelled queries

2003-06-26 Thread Jon Crowell
ASpell is an open source spell checking tool with an API for C. (I'm afraid I don't know of a C# spell checking API). ASpell uses a very sophisticated algorithm that begins by translating the offending word into its soundslike equivalent, and yields the best results of any spell checking tool I am

RE: misspelled queries

2003-06-26 Thread Jon Crowell
GSpell is an open source java spell checking API. It can be found at http://umlslex.nlm.nih.gov/nlsRepository/gspell/doc/userDoc/ It incorporates both metaphone (which is similar to SoundEx, I think) and ngram algorithms and it is easy to use. I currently have an application in which a user subm