On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 9:25 PM, Erick Erickson wrote:
> My off-the-top-of-my-head notion is you implement a
> Filter whose job is to emit some "special" tokens when
> you find strings like this that allow you to search without
> regexes. For instance, in the example you give, you could
> index so
Hmmm, I don't know all that much about the universe
you're searching (I'm *really* sorry about that, but I
couldn't resist) but I wonder if you can't turn the problem
on its head and do your regex stuff at index time instead.
My off-the-top-of-my-head notion is you implement a
Filter whose job is
Hi Erick,
On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 12:37 PM, Erick Erickson wrote:
> Could you show us some examples of the kinds of things
> you're using regex for? I.e. the raw text and the regex you
> use to match the example?
Sure!
An example identifier would be "IRAS-A-FPA-3-RDR-IMPS-V6.0", which
identifies
Could you show us some examples of the kinds of things
you're using regex for? I.e. the raw text and the regex you
use to match the example?
The reason I ask is that perhaps there are other approaches,
especially thinking about some clever analyzing at index time.
For instance, perhaps NGrams are
On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 11:01 AM, Jay Luker wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to provide a means to search our corpus of nearly 2
> million fulltext astronomy and physics articles using regular
> expressions. A small percentage of our users need to be able to
> locate, for example, certain types of iden
Hi,
I am trying to provide a means to search our corpus of nearly 2
million fulltext astronomy and physics articles using regular
expressions. A small percentage of our users need to be able to
locate, for example, certain types of identifiers that are present
within the fulltext (grant numbers, d
