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Grant Ingersoll commented on SOLR-236: -------------------------------------- bq. I'm curious as to whether anyone has just thought of using the Clustering component for this? If your "collapse" field was a single token, I wonder if you would get the results you're looking for. I would note, in looking at the Carrot2 code, they actually have a ByFieldClusteringAlgorithm (what they call synthetic clustering) which does field collapsing/clustering on a value of a field. To quote the javadocs: {quote} Clusters documents into a flat structure based on the values of some field of the documents. By default the {...@link Document#SOURCES} field is used {quote} and {quote} * Name of the field to cluster by. Each non-null scalar field value with distinct * hash code will give raise to a single cluster, named using the * {...@link Object#toString()} value of the field. If the field value is a collection, * the document will be assigned to all clusters corresponding to the values in the * collection. Note that arrays will not be 'unfolded' in this way. * {quote} I don't know how it performs, but it seems like it would at least be worth investigating. Note, they also have a synthetic one for collapsing based on URL: ByUrlClusteringAlgorithm Just food for thought. > Field collapsing > ---------------- > > Key: SOLR-236 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-236 > Project: Solr > Issue Type: New Feature > Components: search > Affects Versions: 1.3 > Reporter: Emmanuel Keller > Assignee: Shalin Shekhar Mangar > Fix For: 1.5 > > Attachments: collapsing-patch-to-1.3.0-dieter.patch, > collapsing-patch-to-1.3.0-ivan.patch, collapsing-patch-to-1.3.0-ivan_2.patch, > collapsing-patch-to-1.3.0-ivan_3.patch, field-collapse-3.patch, > field-collapse-4-with-solrj.patch, field-collapse-5.patch, > field-collapse-5.patch, field-collapse-5.patch, field-collapse-5.patch, > field-collapse-5.patch, field-collapse-5.patch, field-collapse-5.patch, > field-collapse-5.patch, field-collapse-5.patch, field-collapse-5.patch, > field-collapse-5.patch, field-collapse-5.patch, field-collapse-5.patch, > field-collapse-5.patch, field-collapse-5.patch, > field-collapse-solr-236-2.patch, field-collapse-solr-236.patch, > field-collapsing-extended-592129.patch, field_collapsing_1.1.0.patch, > field_collapsing_1.3.patch, field_collapsing_dsteigerwald.diff, > field_collapsing_dsteigerwald.diff, field_collapsing_dsteigerwald.diff, > quasidistributed.additional.patch, SOLR-236-FieldCollapsing.patch, > SOLR-236-FieldCollapsing.patch, SOLR-236-FieldCollapsing.patch, > SOLR-236.patch, SOLR-236.patch, SOLR-236.patch, SOLR-236.patch, > SOLR-236.patch, solr-236.patch, SOLR-236_collapsing.patch, > SOLR-236_collapsing.patch > > > This patch include a new feature called "Field collapsing". > "Used in order to collapse a group of results with similar value for a given > field to a single entry in the result set. Site collapsing is a special case > of this, where all results for a given web site is collapsed into one or two > entries in the result set, typically with an associated "more documents from > this site" link. See also Duplicate detection." > http://www.fastsearch.com/glossary.aspx?m=48&amid=299 > The implementation add 3 new query parameters (SolrParams): > "collapse.field" to choose the field used to group results > "collapse.type" normal (default value) or adjacent > "collapse.max" to select how many continuous results are allowed before > collapsing > TODO (in progress): > - More documentation (on source code) > - Test cases > Two patches: > - "field_collapsing.patch" for current development version > - "field_collapsing_1.1.0.patch" for Solr-1.1.0 > P.S.: Feedback and misspelling correction are welcome ;-) -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.