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Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2011 08:04:52 -0400
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Subject: Re: Indexing Non-Textual Data
From: Chris Spencer <chrisspen@gmail.com>
To: java-user@lucene.apache.org
Cc: Otis Gospodnetic <otis_gospodnetic@yahoo.com>
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My question wasn't just about classification. I'm asking, is there a way to
classify non-textual data with Lucene? Yes, I know how to Google, and I've
read the mailing list logs. All of those results only concern classifying
simple text, not arbitrary numeric features.

Regards,
Chris

On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 1:04 AM, Otis Gospodnetic <otis_gospodnetic@yahoo.com
> wrote:

> Hi Chris,
>
> Yes, people have done classification with Lucene before.  Have a look at
> http://search-lucene.com/?q=classifier&fc_project=Lucene for some
> discussions
> and actual code (in old JIRA issues)
>
> Otis
> ----
> Sematext :: http://sematext.com/ :: Solr - Lucene - Nutch
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>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> > From: Chris Spencer <chrisspen@gmail.com>
> > To: java-user@lucene.apache.org
> > Sent: Wed, April 6, 2011 7:46:45 PM
> > Subject: Indexing Non-Textual Data
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm new to Lucene, so forgive me if this is a newbie question. I have  a
> > dataset composed of several thousand lists of 128 integer features,  each
> > list associated with a class label. Would it be possible to use Lucene
>  as a
> > classifier, by indexing the label with respect to these integer
>  features,
> > and then classify a new list by finding the most similar labels  with
> Lucene?
> >
> > I'm specifically interested in doing so through the PyLucene  API, so
> I've
> > been going through the PyLucene samples, but they only seem to  involve
> > indexing text, not continuous features (understandably). Could anyone
>  point
> > me to an example that indexes non-textual data?
> >
> > I think the  project Lire (http://www.semanticmetadata.net/lire/) is
> using
> > Lucene to do something  similar to this, although with an emphasis on
> image
> > features. I've dug into  their code a little, but I'm not a strong Java
> > programmer, so I'm not sure  how they're pulling it off, nor how I might
> > translate this into the PyLucene  API. In your opinion, is this a
> practical
> > use of  Lucene?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Chris
> >
>
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