The javadoc for Field.setBoost() claims:
"The boost is multiplied by |Document.getBoost()| <http://jakarta.apache.org/lucene/docs/api/org/apache/lucene/document/Document.html#getBoost%28%29> of the document containing this field. If a document has multiple fields with the same name, all such values are multiplied together."
However, from what I can tell from IndexSearcher.explain(), multiple fields with the same name have their boost values added together. It might very well be that I'm misinterprating what I'm seeing from explain(), but if I'm not, then either the javadoc is wrong or there's a bug somewhere...
Does anyone know which way it's actually supposed to work?
Boosts for multiple fields with the same name in the a document are multiplied together at index time to form the boost for that field of that document. At search time, if multiple query terms from the same field match the same document, then that document's field boost is multiplied into the score for both terms, and these scores are then added. If boost(field,doc) is the boost, and raw(term,doc) is the raw, unboosted score (I'm simplifying things) then the score for a two term query is something like:
boosted(<t1,t2>,d) =
boost(t1.field,d)*raw(t1,d) + boost(t2.field,d)*raw(t2,d)which, when t1 and t2 are in the same field, is equivalent to:
boosted(<t1,t2>,d) = boost(field,d)*(raw(t1,d) + raw(t2,d))
The explain() feature prints things in the first form, where the boosts appear in separate components of a sum.
Does that help?
Doug
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