Negative boosts are accepted, though rather "unusual". Also note that Lucene by default filters out any hits with scores <= 0.0.
Normally you'd set boost to something > 0.0 (0.1 should work). What unexpected effect are you seeing? If you omit norms, then indeed your per-doc boost (and per-field boost, if used) are discarded (have no effect). Mike On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 4:01 PM, Marc Sturlese <marc.sturl...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hey there, > Does de function doc.setBoost(x.y) accept negative values or values minor > than 1?? I mean... it compile and doesn't give errors but the behabiour is > not exactly what I was expecting. > In my use case I have the field title... I want to give very very low > relevance to the documents witch title has less that 40 characters. I have > tried setting boost to negatives values or to 0.1 > Wich is the best way to do that? > Is there any range of values for setting boost? > > And another thing that confuses me... if I omit norms is the score > function... how does it affect to the boosting I am setting? does it loose > the effect? > > Thanks in advance! > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/boost-and-score-doubt-tp22916108p22916108.html > Sent from the Lucene - Java Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org
