/** * Copyright 2004 The Apache Software Foundation. * * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. * You may obtain a copy of the License at * * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 * * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and * limitations under the License. */ package org.apache.lucene.search.similar; import java.io.IOException; import java.io.StringReader; import java.util.HashSet; import java.util.Set; import org.apache.lucene.analysis.Analyzer; import org.apache.lucene.analysis.TokenStream; import org.apache.lucene.analysis.tokenattributes.CharTermAttribute; import org.apache.lucene.index.Term; import org.apache.lucene.search.BooleanClause; import org.apache.lucene.search.BooleanQuery; import org.apache.lucene.search.IndexSearcher; import org.apache.lucene.search.Query; import org.apache.lucene.search.TermQuery; /** * Simple similarity measures. * * @see MoreLikeThis */ public final class SimilarityQueries { /** * */ private SimilarityQueries() { } /** * Simple similarity query generators. * Takes every unique word and forms a boolean query where all words are optional. * After you get this you'll use to to query your {@link IndexSearcher} for similar docs. * The only caveat is the first hit returned <b>should be</b> your source document - you'll * need to then ignore that. * * <p> * So, if you have a code fragment like this: * <br> * <code> * Query q = formSimilaryQuery( "I use Lucene to search fast. Fast searchers are good", new StandardAnalyzer(), "contents", null); * </code> * * <p> * The query returned, in string form, will be <code>'(i use lucene to search fast searchers are good')</code>. * * <p> * The philosophy behind this method is "two documents are similar if they share lots of words". * Note that behind the scenes, Lucene's scoring algorithm will tend to give two documents a higher similarity score if the share more uncommon words. * * <P> * This method is fail-safe in that if a long 'body' is passed in and * {@link BooleanQuery#add BooleanQuery.add()} (used internally) * throws * {@link org.apache.lucene.search.BooleanQuery.TooManyClauses BooleanQuery.TooManyClauses}, the * query as it is will be returned. * * @param body the body of the document you want to find similar documents to * @param a the analyzer to use to parse the body * @param field the field you want to search on, probably something like "contents" or "body" * @param stop optional set of stop words to ignore * @return a query with all unique words in 'body' * @throws IOException this can't happen... */ public static Query formSimilarQuery( String body, Analyzer a, String field, Set<?> stop) throws IOException { TokenStream ts = a.tokenStream( field, new StringReader( body)); CharTermAttribute termAtt = ts.addAttribute(CharTermAttribute.class); BooleanQuery tmp = new BooleanQuery(); Set<String> already = new HashSet<String>(); // ignore dups while (ts.incrementToken()) { String word = termAtt.toString(); // ignore opt stop words if ( stop != null && stop.contains( word)) continue; // ignore dups if ( ! already.add( word)) continue; // add to query TermQuery tq = new TermQuery( new Term( field, word)); try { tmp.add( tq, BooleanClause.Occur.SHOULD); } catch( BooleanQuery.TooManyClauses too) { // fail-safe, just return what we have, not the end of the world break; } } return tmp; } }