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-This module contains a number of filter and query objects that add to core lucene.
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-The "MoreLikeThis" class from the "similarity" module has been copied into here.
-If people are generally happy with this move then the similarity module can be deleted, or at least a
-"Moved to queries module..." note left in its place.
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-==== FuzzyLikeThis - mixes the behaviour of FuzzyQuery and MoreLikeThis but with special consideration
-of fuzzy scoring factors. This generally produces good results for queries where users may provide details in a number of
-fields and have no knowledge of boolean query syntax and also want a degree of fuzzy matching. The query is fast because, like
-MoreLikeThis, it optimizes the query to only the most distinguishing terms.
-
-==== BoostingQuery - effectively demotes search results that match a given query.
-Unlike the "NOT" clause, this still selects documents that contain undesirable terms,
-but reduces the overall score of docs containing these terms.
-
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-==== TermsFilter - Unlike a RangeFilter this can be used for filtering on multiple terms that are not necessarily in
-a sequence. An example might be a collection of primary keys from a database query result or perhaps
-a choice of "category" labels picked by the end user.
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-
-Mark Harwood
-25/02/2006
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- XML based query syntax
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- This module contains:
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- - a modular Lucene Query Parser where queries are expressed as XML
- - JUnit test
- - DTD schemas and generated documentation
- - Example XML queries
- - Test index (subset of Reuters 21578)
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- The original motivation for creating this package was outlined and discussed here.
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- Parser support includes:
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- - "Span" queries
- - Simple caching for filters
- - "Like this" queries
- - Boolean, Term, and UserInput (parsed with existing query parser)
- - BoostingQuery - a class that can downgrade scores for hits on
- certain terms rather than the hard-line approach taken by BooleanClause.Occurs.MUST_NOT
- - FilteredQuery, RangeFilter, DuplicateFilter and "TermsFilter" for non-sequential terms
- - "FuzzyLikeThis" a new query which is a cross between "LikeThis" and "fuzzy" but with
- better scoring of fuzzy terms than standard fuzzy queries
- - A modular design with expandable support for new query/filter types
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- This code is dependent on the "queries" contrib module although the "CoreParser" can be compiled with just Lucene core if required
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