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Lucene 4 Cookbook

Lucene 4 Cookbook

By : Edwood Ng, Vineeth Mohan
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Lucene 4 Cookbook

Lucene 4 Cookbook

3.2 (5)
By: Edwood Ng, Vineeth Mohan

Overview of this book

This book is for software developers who are new to Lucene and who want to explore the more advanced topics to build a search engine. Knowledge of Java is necessary to follow the code samples. You will learn core concepts, best practices, and also advanced features, in order to build an effective search application.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)
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Introduction

Scoring is fundamental to Lucene's search capability and accuracy. Normally, you don't see scores in search results, but it's there to help sort results by relevancy. Knowing how scoring works, its boundary will help you make informed decisions in your application design.

The goal of scoring is to objectively calculate weights to rank already matched results. The contents that are more relevant to the search criteria are sorted before the less relevant ones. This is called relevancy ranking. Lucene employs a number of techniques to perform this calculation. The expandable nature of Lucene also allows you to customize scoring and expand from the default configuration. This flexibility is part of the appeal of Lucene's popularity. In this chapter, we will first look into Lucene's scoring methodology. Then, we will explore customization techniques to expand from default behavior. The intention of this chapter is to give you a primer into Lucene's...

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