[CTAKES-67] LuceneDictionaryImpl and iv_maxHits

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 3.0-incubating
• Component/s: ctakes-dictionary-lookup
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Steven Bethard
• Created: 04/Oct/12 23:04
• Updated: 28/Dec/22 18:53

Description

The default value for LuceneDictionaryImpl's iv_maxHits is Integer.MAX_VALUE, and this class uses iv_maxHits in this call:

topDoc = iv_searcher.search(query.parse(str.replace('-', ' ')), iv_maxHits);

This search method is only intended for use with a max hits up to about 100 items:

https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-4368?focusedCommentId=13451578&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#comment-13451578

If you really want all the hits, then it'll speed things up (by a lot, in my experience) to write a simple Collector subclass that just collects them all.