Daniel Naber writes: > On Wednesday 04 August 2004 13:19, Terry Steichen wrote: > > > I can't get negative boosts to work with QueryParser. Is it possible to do > > so? > > Isn't that the same as using a boost < 1, e.g. 0.1? That should be possible. > no. a^-1 OR b A boost of -1 means that the score gets smaller if a document contains a with that boost appears. So it's somehow similar to NOT a, though less strict. A boost of 0.1 means that the score is increased less for an occurance of a.
Usually one just want's the latter, but it's not the same. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
