On Tuesday 15 November 2005 19:35, Yonik Seeley wrote: > On 11/15/05, Doug Cutting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Paul Elschot wrote: > > > I think loosing the field boosts for PrefixQuery and friends would not be > > > advisable. Field boosts have a very big range and from that a very big > > > influence on the score and the order of the results in Hits. > > > > It should not be hard to add these. If a field name is provided, then > > it would be a one or two line change to ConstantScoreQuery.java to have > > it boost scores according to that field's norm values. Right, Yonik? > > > > Doug > > Yep, that sounds like that would do it. > > As far as API goes, I guess there should be a constructor > ConstantScoreQuery(Filter filter, String field) > If field is non-null, then the field norm can be multiplied into the score.
That might be called a FieldNormQuery, and it would be useful on occasions. Not using the document term frequencies in PrefixQuery would still leave these as a surprise factor between PrefixQuery and TermQuery. Regards, Paul Elschot --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
