How do you find a similar documents of a given document in Lucene. I do not know what the text is i only know what the document is. Is there a way to find similar documents in lucene. I am a newbie so I may need some hand holding.
you may want to check the MoreLikeThis feature of lucene.
MoreLikeThis constructs a lucene query based on terms within a document to find other similar documents in the index.
Sample code example (java reference) -
MoreLikeThis mlt = new MoreLikeThis(reader); // Pass the index reader
mlt.setFieldNames(new String[] {"title", "author"}); // specify the fields for similiarity
Query query = mlt.like(docID); // Pass the doc id
TopDocs similarDocs = searcher.search(query, 10); // Use the searcher
if (similarDocs.totalHits == 0)
// Do handling
}