How Lucene search works? - lucene

I'm testing Lucene indexing/searchin and I have a doubt. To test I create some simple files.
Example:
mark_test_mark.txt
mark test mark
a.txt
mark
test
mark
mark
test
mark
mark
test
mark
mark
test
mark
I extrac the files' content and I'm indexing this too.
I'm creating the document to indexing this way:
doc.add(new Field(FILE_NAME, index.getFileName().trim(), Field.Store.YES, Field.Index.ANALYZED, Field.TermVector.YES));
doc.add(new Field(FILE_NAME_LOWER, index.getFileName().toLowerCase().trim(), Field.Store.YES, Field.Index.ANALYZED, Field.TermVector.YES));
doc.add(new Field(CONTENT, index.getFileContent(), Field.Store.YES, Field.Index.ANALYZED, Field.TermVector.YES));
My question is when I do a seach for a keyword like 'mark'.
Lucene returns to me the following result:
mark_test_mark.txt -> 0.36452034
a.txt -> 0.36452034
Where, the 1st part represent the file name, and the second, the search score.
In my opinion, these 2 files don't have the same score and the first file should be a.txt.
Am I wrong?
EDIT:
I forget to say that I'm searching by name and content, so I do a multi-field search.
I'm using this code to do this:
IndexReader reader = IndexReader.open(Indexer.getFSDirectory(searchDirectory));
IndexSearcher searcher = new IndexSearcher(reader);
Analyzer analyzer = new StandardAnalyzer(Version.LUCENE_36);
MultiFieldQueryParser queryParser = new MultiFieldQueryParser(Version.LUCENE_36, new String[] {Indexer.FILE_NAME_LOWER, Indexer.CONTENT}, analyzer);
TopDocs topDocs = null;
try {
topDocs = searcher.search(queryParser.parse(searchQuery.getQuery()), getHitsPerPage());
} catch (ParseException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
ScoreDoc[] hits = topDocs.scoreDocs;

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Lucene problems searchinh hyphenated field

I'm having some problems with Lucene that are driving me nuts. I have the following field:
doc.Add(new Field("cataloguenumber", i.CatalogueNumber.ToLower(), Field.Store.YES, Field.Index.ANALYZED));
Which will contain a catalogue number that looks something like this:
DF-GH5
DF-FJ4
DF-DOG
AC-DP
AC-123
AC-DOCO
i.e. two characters followed by a hyphen followed by 2-5 alphanumeric characters.
I'm trying to run a boolean query to allow users to search over the data:
// specify the search fields, lucene search in multiple fields
string[] searchfields = new string[] { "cataloguenumber", "title", "author", "categories", "year", "length", "keyword", "description" };
// Making a boolean query for searching and get the searched hits
BooleanQuery mainQuery = new BooleanQuery();
QueryParser parser;
//Add filter for main keyword
parser = new MultiFieldQueryParser(Lucene.Net.Util.Version.LUCENE_30, searchfields, new StandardAnalyzer(Lucene.Net.Util.Version.LUCENE_30));
parser.AllowLeadingWildcard = true;
mainQuery.Add(parser.Parse(GetMainSearchQueryString(SearchPhrase)), Occur.MUST);
The system is working fine for all fields EXCEPT cataloguenumber which for whatever reason is not working at all.
Ideally we would like to be able to search by full or partial cataloguenumber so for example "DF-" should return all items prefixed DF
Does anyone know how I can make this work?
Thanks very much in advance
Olly
A common source of problems is to use different analyzers on index-time and query-time. You should be able to get good results by using a StandardAnalyzer - it treats the text DF-GH5 as a single token so you will be able to search using fx df-gh5 or df-* but make sure to use it for the IndexWriter and the QueryParser.
Here is a simple example which builds an in-memory index with a single document, and tries to query the index by cataloguenumber.
public static void Test()
{
// Use an in-memory index.
RAMDirectory indexDirectory = new RAMDirectory();
// Make sure to use the same analyzer for indexing
Analyzer analyzer = new StandardAnalyzer(Lucene.Net.Util.Version.LUCENE_30);
// Add single document to the index.
using (IndexWriter writer = new IndexWriter(indexDirectory, analyzer, IndexWriter.MaxFieldLength.UNLIMITED))
{
Document document = new Document();
document.Add(new Field("content", "This is just some text", Field.Store.YES, Field.Index.ANALYZED));
document.Add(new Field("cataloguenumber", "DF-GH5", Field.Store.YES, Field.Index.ANALYZED));
writer.AddDocument(document);
}
var parser = new MultiFieldQueryParser(
Lucene.Net.Util.Version.LUCENE_30,
new[] { "cataloguenumber", "content" },
analyzer);
var searcher = new IndexSearcher(indexDirectory);
DoSearch("df-gh5", parser, searcher);
DoSearch("df-*", parser, searcher);
}
private static void DoSearch(string queryString, MultiFieldQueryParser parser, IndexSearcher searcher)
{
var query = parser.Parse(queryString);
TopDocs docs = searcher.Search(query, 10);
foreach (ScoreDoc scoreDoc in docs.ScoreDocs)
{
Document searchHit = searcher.Doc(scoreDoc.Doc);
string cataloguenumber = searchHit.GetValues("cataloguenumber").FirstOrDefault();
string content = searchHit.GetValues("content").FirstOrDefault();
Console.WriteLine($"Found object: {cataloguenumber} {content}");
}
}

Lucene phrase query does not work

I can't figure out how to make phrase query to work. It returns exact mathes, but slop option doesn't seem to make a difference.
Here's my code:
static void Main(string[] args)
{
using (Directory directory = new RAMDirectory())
{
Analyzer analyzer = new StandardAnalyzer(Lucene.Net.Util.Version.LUCENE_29);
using (IndexWriter writer = new IndexWriter(directory, analyzer, true, IndexWriter.MaxFieldLength.UNLIMITED))
{
// index a few documents
writer.AddDocument(createDocument("1", "henry morgan"));
writer.AddDocument(createDocument("2", "henry junior morgan"));
writer.AddDocument(createDocument("3", "henry immortal jr morgan"));
writer.AddDocument(createDocument("4", "morgan henry"));
}
// search for documents that have "foo bar" in them
String sentence = "henry morgan";
IndexSearcher searcher = new IndexSearcher(directory, true);
PhraseQuery query = new PhraseQuery()
{
//allow inverse order
Slop = 3
};
query.Add(new Term("contents", sentence));
// display search results
List<string> results = new List<string>();
Console.WriteLine("Looking for \"{0}\"...", sentence);
TopDocs topDocs = searcher.Search(query, 100);
foreach (ScoreDoc scoreDoc in topDocs.ScoreDocs)
{
var matchedContents = searcher.Doc(scoreDoc.Doc).Get("contents");
results.Add(matchedContents);
Console.WriteLine("Found: {0}", matchedContents);
}
}
private static Document createDocument(string id, string content)
{
Document doc = new Document();
doc.Add(new Field("id", id, Field.Store.YES, Field.Index.NOT_ANALYZED));
doc.Add(new Field("contents", content, Field.Store.YES, Field.Index.ANALYZED, Field.TermVector.WITH_POSITIONS_OFFSETS));
return doc;
}
I thought that all options except document with id=3 are supposed to match, but only the first one does. Did I miss something?
In Lucene In Action 2nd, 3.4.6 Searching by phrase: PhraseQuery.
PhraseQuery uses this information to locate documents where terms are within a certain distance of one another
Sure, a plain TermQuery would do the trick to locate this document
knowing either of those words, but in this case we only want documents
that have phrases where the words are either exactly side by side
(quick fox) or have one word in between (quick [irrelevant] fox)
So the PhraseQuery is actually used between terms and the sample code in that chapter also proves it. As you use StandardAnalyzer, so "henry morgan"
will be henry and morgan after analyzation. Therefore, you can not add "henry morgan" as one Term
/*
Sets the number of other words permitted between words
in query phrase.If zero, then this is an exact phrase search.
*/
public void setSlop(int s) { slop = s; }
The definition of setSlop may further explain the case.
After a little change on your code, I got it nailed.
// code in Scala
val query = new PhraseQuery();
query.setSlop(3)
List("henry", "morgan").foreach { word =>
query.add(new Term("contents", word))
}
In this case, the four documents will all be matched. If you have any further problem, I suggest you read that chapter in Lucene In Action 2nd.
That might help.

How to check if document exists in lucene index?

I have an index of news articles, where i save title,link,description of news.. sometimes its possible that same news from same link is published with different titles by different news sources. it don't want exactly same description articles to be added twice..how to find if document already exists?
I'm assuming you're working with Java.
Assuming your link is being saved in the index as a StringField (so any analyzers you use won't break up the link into multiple terms), you can use a TermQuery.
TopDocs results = searcher.search(new TermQuery(new Term("link", "http://example.com")), 1);
if (results.totalHits == 0){
Document doc = new Document();
// create your document here with your fields
// link field should be stored as a StringField
doc.add(new StringField("link", "http://example.com", Stored.YES));
writer.addDocument(doc);
}
Note that StringFields are stored exactly so you may want to convert to lowercase when searching/indexing.
If you wish to make sure not more than 1 field already exists, then you can run it as a BooleanQuery using the Occur.SHOULD condition:
BooleanQuery matchingQuery = new BooleanQuery();
matchingQuery.add(new TermQuery(new Term("link", "http://example.com")), Occur.SHOULD);
matchingQuery.add(new TermQuery(new Term("description", "the unique description of the article")), Occur.SHOULD);
TopDocs results = searcher.search(matchingQuery, 1);
if (results.totalHits == 0){
Document doc = new Document();
// create your document here with your fields
// link field should be stored as a StringField
doc.add(new StringField("link", "http://example.com", Stored.YES));
doc.add(new StringField("description", "the unique description of the article", Stored.YES));
// note if you need the description to be tokenized, you need to add another TextField to the document with a different field name
doc.add(new TextField("descriptionText", "the unique description of the article", Stored.NO));
writer.addDocument(doc);
}

NOT operator doesn't work in query lucene

I use lucene version 3.0.3.0, but some expression that i search, doesn't work properly. for example if i search "!Fiesta OR Astra" on field "Model", "vauxhallAstra" is returned only and "fordFocus" is not returned. my code is below:
var fordFiesta = new Document();
fordFiesta.Add(new Field("Id", "1", Field.Store.YES, Field.Index.NOT_ANALYZED));
fordFiesta.Add(new Field("Make", "Ford", Field.Store.YES, Field.Index.ANALYZED));
fordFiesta.Add(new Field("Model", "Fiesta", Field.Store.YES, Field.Index.ANALYZED));
var fordFocus = new Document();
fordFocus.Add(new Field("Id", "2", Field.Store.YES, Field.Index.NOT_ANALYZED));
fordFocus.Add(new Field("Make", "Ford", Field.Store.YES, Field.Index.ANALYZED));
fordFocus.Add(new Field("Model", "Focus", Field.Store.YES, Field.Index.ANALYZED));
var vauxhallAstra = new Document();
vauxhallAstra.Add(new Field("Id", "3", Field.Store.YES, Field.Index.NOT_ANALYZED));
vauxhallAstra.Add(new Field("Make", "Vauxhall", Field.Store.YES, Field.Index.ANALYZED));
vauxhallAstra.Add(new Field("Model", "Astra", Field.Store.YES, Field.Index.ANALYZED));
Directory directory = FSDirectory.Open(new DirectoryInfo(Environment.CurrentDirectory + "\\LuceneIndex"));
Analyzer analyzer = new StandardAnalyzer(Version.LUCENE_30);
var writer = new IndexWriter(directory, analyzer, true, IndexWriter.MaxFieldLength.LIMITED);
writer.AddDocument(fordFiesta);
writer.AddDocument(fordFocus);
writer.AddDocument(vauxhallAstra);
writer.Optimize();
writer.Close();
IndexReader indexReader = IndexReader.Open(directory, true);
Searcher indexSearch = new IndexSearcher(indexReader);
var queryParser = new QueryParser(Version.LUCENE_30, "Model", analyzer);
var query = queryParser.Parse("!Fiesta OR Astra");
Console.WriteLine("Searching for: " + query.ToString());
TopDocs resultDocs = indexSearch.Search(query, 200);
Console.WriteLine("Results Found: " + resultDocs.MaxScore);
var hits = resultDocs.ScoreDocs;
foreach (var hit in hits)
{
var documentFromSearcher = indexSearch.Doc(hit.Doc);
Console.WriteLine(documentFromSearcher.Get("Make") + " " + documentFromSearcher.Get("Model"));
}
indexSearch.Close();
directory.Close();
Console.ReadKey();
!Fiesta OR Astra doesn't mean what you think it means. The !Fiesta portion does NOT mean, "get everything except Fiesta", as you might expect, but rather more like "forbid Fiesta". A NOT term in a Lucene query only filters out results, it does not find anything.
The only query you have defined that will actually fetch results is Astra. So everything containing Astra will be found, then anything with Fiesta will be filtered out.
In order to perform the query I believe you are expecting, you would need something like:
Astra OR (*:* !Fiesta)
*:* as a MatchAllDocsQuery. Since you do need to match all the documents to perform this sort of query, it can be expected to perform poorly.
Confusing interpretation of "boolean" logic like this are why I really don't like AND/OR/NOT syntax for Lucene. +/- is much clearer, more powerful, and doesn't introduce the oddball gotchas like this.
This excellent article on the topic clarifies somewhat why you should be thinking in terms of MUST/MUST_NOT/SHOULD, rather than traditional boolean logic.

Deleting document by Term from lucene

The following code does not delete the document by Term as expected:
RAMDirectory idx = new RAMDirectory();
IndexWriter writer = new IndexWriter(idx,
new SnowballAnalyzer(Version.LUCENE_30, "English"),
IndexWriter.MaxFieldLength.LIMITED);
Document doc = new Document();
doc.add(new Field("title", "mydoc", Field.Store.YES, Field.Index.NO));
doc.add(new Field("content", "some content, deleteme", Field.Store.YES, Field.Inde
x.ANALYZED));
writer.addDocument(doc);
Document doc2 = new Document();
doc2.add(new Field("title", "mydoc2", Field.Store.YES, Field.Index.NO));
doc2.add(new Field("content", "other content, don't deleteme", Field.Store.YES, Field.I
ndex.ANALYZED));
writer.addDocument(doc2);
writer.optimize();
writer.close();
/*
IndexReader reader = IndexReader.open(idx, false);
int docs_up_for_deletion = reader.docFreq(new Term("title"));
int before = reader.numDocs();
int docs_deleted = reader.deleteDocuments(new Term("title", "mydoc"));
reader.close();
*/
IndexWriter writer2 = new IndexWriter(idx,
new SnowballAnalyzer(Version.LUCENE_30, "English"),
IndexWriter.MaxFieldLength.LIMITED);
int before = writer2.numDocs();
writer2.deleteDocuments(new Term("title", "mydoc"));
writer2.commit();
writer2.optimize();
int after = writer2.numDocs();
writer2.close();
int docs_deleted = before - after;
I've tried deleting with the IndexReader and IndexWriter and neither works.
I've also tried adding another IndexReader search after the above code just in case the number only gets updated after closing writer2 (mentioned in this FAQ), but that doesn't help. Doing a writer.deleteAll() works, just not the delete by Term.
I found an old reference to the fact that only fields of type Field.Keyword can be deleted, but this is no longer a valid field type in Lucene 3.x
Your title field is not indexed. Change
new Field("title", "mydoc", Field.Store.YES, Field.Index.NO)
to
new Field("title", "mydoc", Field.Store.YES, Field.Index.ANALYZED)
or
new Field("title", "mydoc", Field.Store.YES, Field.Index.NOT_ANALYZED)
depending on whether or not you want your field analyzed.