Thanks Jake! I will test this out and report back soon in case it's helpful to others. Definitely appreciate the help.
Scott On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 3:33 PM, Jake Mannix <jake.man...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 3:07 PM, scott w <scottbl...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Example Document: > > model_1_score = 0.9 > > model_2_score = 0.3 > > model_3_score = 0.7 > > > > I want to be able to pass in the following map at query time: > > {model_1_score=0.4, model_2_score=0.7} and have that map get used as > input > > to a custom score function that would look like: 0.9*0.4 + 0.3*0.7, so > that > > it is summing over the specified fields and multipling the indexed weight > > by > > the query time weight. > > > > Ok, now I think I get it. You do have some index-time floats, and > query-time > boosts. > > You should be able to do a normal BooleanQuery with three OR'ed together > ValueSourceQueries boosted by input weights, it seems, as that is the way > they work - they take the values in different fields and use them as the > score, > and the normal boosting technique will use query time weigting. > > To get good performance with a ValueSourceQuery, I'd suggest using a > FieldCacheSource for speedier processing: > > ----------- > String field = "model_1_score"; > float runTimeBoost = 0.5; > > ValueSource model1Source = new FloatFieldSource(field, > new FieldCache.FloatParser() { > public float parseFloat(String s) { return Float.parseFloat(s); } > }); > > Query model1Q = new ValueSourceQuery(model1Source); > > model1Q.setBoost(runTimeBoost); > > // do this for model2 and model3 as well... > > BooleanQuery bq = new BooleanQuery(); > bq.add(model1Q, Occur.SHOULD); > bq.add(model2Q, Occur.SHOULD); > bq.add(model3Q, Occur.SHOULD); > --------------- > > I haven't tried this code, but it seems like this is what you are trying > to do... > > -jake >