Cedric, SpanFirstQuery could be a solution without payloads. You may want to give it your own Similarity.sloppyFreq() .
Regards, Paul Elschot On Thursday 02 August 2007 04:07, Cedric Ho wrote: > Thanks for the quick response =) > > On 8/1/07, Shailendra Sharma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yes, it is easily doable through "Payload" facility. During indexing process > > (mainly tokenization), you need to push this extra information in each > > token. And then you can use BoostingTermQuery for using Payload value to > > include Payload in the score. You also need to implement Similarity for this > > (mainly scorePayload method). > > If I store, say a custom boost factor as Payload, does it means that I > will store one more byte per term per document in the index file? So > the index file would be much larger? > > > > > Other way can be to extend SpanTermQuery, this already calculates the > > position of match. You just need to do something to use this position value > > in the score calculation. > > I see that SpanTermQuery takes a TermPositions from the indexReader > and I can get the term position from there. However I am not sure how > to incorporate it into the score calculation. Would you mind give a > little more detail on this? > > > > > One possible advantage of SpanTermQuery approach is that you can play > > around, without re-creating indices everytime. > > > > Thanks, > > Shailendra Sharma, > > CTO, Ver se' Innovation Pvt. Ltd. > > Bangalore, India > > > > On 8/1/07, Cedric Ho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > I was wondering if it is possible to do boosting by search terms' > > > position in the document. > > > > > > for example: > > > search terms appear in the first 100 words, or first 10% words, or in > > > first two paragraphs would be given higher score. > > > > > > Is it achievable through using the new Payload function in lucene 2.2? > > > Or are there any easier ways to achieve these ? > > > > > > > > > Regards, > > > Cedric > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > Thanks, > Cedric > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]