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index rules in oracle text and query using matches

767499Apr 19 2010 — edited Apr 20 2010
Dear All,

I would like to ask about rules and matches function in oracle text.
I followed an example in oracle text application developer's guide.
I have a rule table like this :

1 oracle
2 larry or ellison
3 oracle and text
4 market share

then, I create an index to that table. This is needed for calling matches function. Here is the syntax :

create index queryx on queries(query_string)
indextype is ctxsys.ctxrule;

then, I noticed that the result on DR$QUERYX$I table as follows :

LARRY 0 2 2 1 (BLOB)
MARKET 0 4 4 1 (BLOB) {MARKET} {SHARE}
ORACLE 0 1 1 1 (BLOB)
ORACLE 0 3 3 1 (BLOB) {TEXT}
ELLISON 0 2 2 1 (BLOB)

What I want to ask is why doesn't the words 'share' and 'text' appear in the DR$QUERYX$ table?

When we use matches function, it then search on the index result and consequently it wion't find the 'share' word. so when for example I do query like this :

select query_id from queries where matches(query_string,' It only share ten percent of all products sold')>0

it will give 0 result since the no word in ' It only share ten percent of all products sold' was in index table. But actually it could possibly be categorized as the 4 category which rules is 'market share'

I tried this in a larger set of data and get same result.
Here is my generated rules from my document collection :

1 {REQUIREMENTS} & {ELICITATION}
1 {REQUIREMENTS} ~ {ELICITATION} & {ACTOR}
1 {REQUIREMENTS} ~ {ELICITATION} ~ {ACTOR} & {FURPS}
1 {REQUIREMENTS} ~ {ELICITATION} ~ {ACTOR} ~ {FURPS} ~ {OUTLINE}
1 {REQUIREMENTS} ~ {ELICITATION} ~ {ACTOR} ~ {FURPS} ~ {OUTLINE} & {PROC}
1 {REQUIREMENTS} ~ {ELICITATION} ~ {ACTOR} ~ {FURPS} ~ {OUTLINE} ~ {PROC} & {SPEED}
1 {REQUIREMENTS} ~ {ELICITATION} ~ {ACTOR} ~ {FURPS} ~ {OUTLINE} ~ {PROC} ~ {SPEED} & {DOCUME}
1 {REQUIREMENTS} ~ {ELICITATION} ~ {ACTOR} ~ {FURPS} ~ {OUTLINE} ~ {PROC} ~ {SPEED} ~ {DOCUME} & {PLACED}
1 {REQUIREMENTS} ~ {ELICITATION} ~ {ACTOR} ~ {FURPS} ~ {OUTLINE} ~ {PROC} ~ {SPEED} ~ {DOCUME} ~ {PLACED} & {UNNECESSARY}
1 {REQUIREMENTS} ~ {ELICITATION} ~ {ACTOR} ~ {FURPS} ~ {OUTLINE} ~ {PROC} ~ {SPEED} ~ {DOCUME} ~ {PLACED} ~ {UNNECESSARY} & {MISUSE}
1 {INTERPRETATION} ~ {REQUIREMENTS}
2 {DESIGN} & {REPRESENTATION}
2 {DESIGN} ~ {REPRESENTATION} & {MAY} & {FOUNDATI} & {OCTOBER}
2 {DESIGN} ~ {REPRESENTATION} & {MAY} & {FOUNDATI} ~ {OCTOBER} & {PROCEDURAL}
2 {DESIGN} ~ {REPRESENTATION} & {MAY} & {FOUNDATI} ~ {OCTOBER} ~ {PROCEDURAL} & {STRICT}
2 {DESIGN} ~ {REPRESENTATION} & {MAY} & {FOUNDATI} ~ {OCTOBER} ~ {PROCEDURAL} ~ {STRICT} & {GRASP}
2 {DESIGN} ~ {REPRESENTATION} & {MAY} & {FOUNDATI} ~ {OCTOBER} ~ {PROCEDURAL} ~ {STRICT} ~ {GRASP} & {MANY} & {LAYER}
2 {DESIGN} ~ {REPRESENTATION} ~ {MAY}
3 {PM} & {TESTING} & {ATTRIBUTI}

And this is the index table result with ctxrule :

(only the token_text column shown)
PM
DESIGN
DESIGN
DESIGN
DESIGN
DESIGN
DESIGN
DESIGN
REQUIREMENTS
REQUIREMENTS
REQUIREMENTS
REQUIREMENTS
REQUIREMENTS
REQUIREMENTS
REQUIREMENTS
REQUIREMENTS
REQUIREMENTS
REQUIREMENTS
INTERPRETATION

so when I try to classify a document with the word ouline inside it, it should produce category 1 (based on the rules) but since there are no word 'outline' in index tabel, the matches will return 0 means that the document is not classifiedto any category. I don't understand why it happen. Anybody knows about this? I would really appreciate any help.
Thank you very much.
This post has been answered by Barbara Boehmer on Apr 20 2010
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