[Xapian-discuss] Proximity in Xapian?

[Philip Neustrom]

Another, probably more general, question would be:  How can
proximity-weighted searches be done with Xapian?

--Philip

On 12/4/06, Sharjeel Ahmed Qureshi <sharjeel.ahmed at vahzay.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just went through the overview of Query Processing in Xapian (
> http://www.xapian.org/docs/overview.html &
> http://www.xapian.org/docs/intro_ir.html ). According to the
> documentation, Xapian does not incorporate Proximity based searching and
> proximity based relevance. During the query processing, each term's
> weight is evaluated, every document is ranked according to term's weight
> and also query operator (AND, OR, NOT) etc is applied. Nowhere does it
> mention use of positions of terms. My question is if positions are used
> for relevance during searching or are they only used for proximity based
>   searching such as PHRASE or NEAR? In any case how is this information
> used?
>
> Regards,
> Sharjeel
>
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