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Jayant Kumar
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Jayant Kumar

Jayant Kumar is an experienced software professional with a bachelor of engineering degree in computer science and more than 14 years of experience in architecting and developing large-scale web applications. Jayant is an expert on search technologies and PHP and has been working with Lucene and Solr for more than 11 years now. He is the key person responsible for introducing Lucene as a search engine on www.naukri.com, the most successful job portal in India. Jayant is also the author of the book Apache Solr PHP Integration, Packt Publishing, which has been very successful. Jayant has played many different important roles throughout his career, including software developer, team leader, project manager, and architect, but his primary focus has been on building scalable solutions on the Web. Currently, he is associated with the digital division of HT Media as the chief architect responsible for the job site www.shine.com. Jayant is an avid blogger and his blog can be visited at http://jayant7k.blogspot.in. His LinkedIn profile is available at http://www.linkedin.com/in/jayantkumar.
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Using BRS queries instead of DisMax


Now that we know the internals of how DisMax queries work and how scoring happens in Solr, let's look at creating our own query syntax and parser for customizing our search. The question here is what is missing in eDisMax. Note that eDisMax provides a simple search syntax where we do not have to worry about the fields and the results are sorted by relevance. However, suppose the requirement is exactly opposite. The end user is an advanced user who knows the fields and what he or she is searching for. One such example is a search involving patents. The syntax for such a search is specified by BRS. In addition to Fielded and Boolean search, BRS also provides a proximity search with clauses such as SAME (in the same paragraph), WITH (in the same sentence), ADJ (adjacent with order), and NEAR (adjacent without order), along with parenthetical grouping. An example of a BRS query is as follows:

((galaxy ADJ samsung) SAME note) AND (mobile OR tablet)

BRS provides...

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Jayant Kumar is an experienced software professional with a bachelor of engineering degree in computer science and more than 14 years of experience in architecting and developing large-scale web applications. Jayant is an expert on search technologies and PHP and has been working with Lucene and Solr for more than 11 years now. He is the key person responsible for introducing Lucene as a search engine on www.naukri.com, the most successful job portal in India. Jayant is also the author of the book Apache Solr PHP Integration, Packt Publishing, which has been very successful. Jayant has played many different important roles throughout his career, including software developer, team leader, project manager, and architect, but his primary focus has been on building scalable solutions on the Web. Currently, he is associated with the digital division of HT Media as the chief architect responsible for the job site www.shine.com. Jayant is an avid blogger and his blog can be visited at http://jayant7k.blogspot.in. His LinkedIn profile is available at http://www.linkedin.com/in/jayantkumar.
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