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Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 09:50:55 -0400
From: "Erick Erickson" <erickerickson@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Concept Search
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That's interesting. I suppose you could add the "synonym" of
WildAnimals$ whenever you encountered any of the items in your
list, then when concept searching is called for, search on
WildAnimals$.

Highlighting might be tricky, but certainly do-able, especially with
the capabilities of a MemoryIndex......

Erick

On 5/16/07, Steven Rowe <sarowe@syr.edu> wrote:
>
> Hi Charles,
>
> The need presented by your use case sounds very similar to that served
> by the SynonymAnalyzer given in Erik Hatcher's and Otis Gospodnetic's
> excellent book "Lucene in Action" - take a look:
>
>     http://lucenebook.com/
>
> Steve
>
> Charles Patridge wrote:
> >   I have looked around on Lucene web site as well as some documentation
> > but have not found anything to do with Concept Search.
> >
> >     My definition of Concept Search is as follows:
> >
> >   1.  I would have a file (list) of various phrases / N-grams which I
> > would like to Lucene to use as a search basis without having to type in
> > all these phrases manually, and have Lucene return the results as it
> > would normally if a single search query was entered.
> >
> >     2.  An example would be - find !Wild_Animals! - where the "!" would
> > indicate that this is a search that would use a file (ie
> > Wild_Animals.txt) and read in the various phrases within this file and
> perform the
> > search in the corpus for these phrases.
> >
> >     3.  The contents of Wild_Animals.txt could look like this:
> >   BUFFALO
> >   BEAR
> >   MOOSE
> >   COYOTE
> >   WOLF
> >   MOUNTAIN GOAT
> >   MOUNTAIN SHEEP
> >   DALL SHEEP
> >   DEER
> >   KODIAK BEAR
> >   BROWN BEAR
> >   BLACK BEAR
> >   etc etc etc
> >
> >     4.  Is my idea of a Concept Search feasible / doable???  If so, can
> > you point me to any documentation that exists whereby this could be done
> > within Lucene
> >
> >     Please send any info you have on this to me -
> > Charles_S_Patridge@prodigy.net
> >
> >   Thank you in advance for your time and efforts.
> >
> >
> >
> > Charles S Patridge - PDPC, Ltd.
> > 172 Monce Road - Burlington, CT 06013 USA
> > Email: Charles_S_Patridge@prodigy.net
> > Web: http://www.sconsig.com
> > Web: http://pages.prodigy.net/charles_s_patridge
> > Web: http://www.munic.state.ct.us/burlington
>
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