I tried using Boost but that did absolutely nothing.I'm not sure what's causing your scores to be off -- unless, of course, your scores just look wrong to you but they're in fact just what you should be getting :)
The documents I am using: Plain text
PDF Documents
(I have two indexes)
One bug in my code was that for an unrelated reason, terms in one field would never be matched. But since other fields contained the same term, the document was still being reported as a hit -- with a lower-than-expected score. Maybe you want to double check that the content of each field is getting tokenized properly.. when you have a term t in the title field that is unique to a particular document (i.e. not contained in any of the other fields of that document) do you still get a hit on the document when searching for t?Boost factors don't help of course if there's no hit in the first place.
When you say you use different analyzers for different fields in your
index, how would you accomplish that? When I create the index it has a
parameter for analyzer.. unless you create different indexes , how do
you use two different ones?
Use PerFieldAnalyzerWrapper: http://jakarta.apache.org/lucene/docs/api/org/apache/lucene/analysis/PerFieldAnalyzerWrapper.html
cheers Gerret
-----Original Message----- From: Gerret Apelt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 24, 2003 3:25 PM To: Lucene Users List Subject: Re: Score
Tracey --
it would help if you could give more detail on the types of documents, fields and analyzers you're using. Also what do you mean by "Multi Field
Search"? I presume you're using the MultiFieldQueryParser to have query terms in a user-submitted query be searched for in each field in your
index.
If I am understanding your problem, then it might be the same one I had a few weeks ago -- highly relevant matches would not receive a high ranking. (This paragraph will apply to you only if you use more than just one Analyzer for the set of your fields). I had six fields in my index, most of which were populated with a standard analyzer. I used self-made Analyzers for two of the fields. This turned out to be my problem when using MultiFieldQueryParser: I told my MultiFieldQueryParser instance to use only the standard analyzer. Instead I discovered that I needed to make use of org.apache.lucene.analysis.PerFieldAnalyzerWrapper and feed that to the MultiFieldQueryParser. Unless you do this, your problem is whats described here: http://lucene.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/faq/faqmanager.cgi?file=chapter.in
dexing&toc=faq#q15.
Most likely, if your scoring is off, you're "doing something wrong" in the way you use the Lucene API -- at least, thats what I've discovered to be the case when my ranking is off.
If you're interested in the nitty-gritty of how scoring is done, check this FAQ entry:
http://lucene.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/faq/faqmanager.cgi?file=chapter.se
arch&toc=faq#q31
cheers, Gerret
Pleasant, Tracy wrote:
Hi,
I'm using the Multi Field Search to search all the fields of my
documents during the search.
When it returns results the scores are numerically low - .06, .17, etc. I would think if I searched for "Dog" and there was a doc with "Dog" in the title and several times in the contents of a document that it would receive a score more like 1.0 or close to it.
Is there a way that I can tweak the score?
I tried using Boost but that did absolutely nothing.
--------------------------------------------------------------------- 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]
--------------------------------------------------------------------- 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]
