Re: Recency weightage in Lucene

2006-06-18 Thread prasenjitm
Using the doc-id itself as a recency metric is smart thinking. But the weight is actually a sigmoidal function based on the oldness(i.e. currentTime-documentIndexingTime), hence just cant use the doc-id itself. What is the JIRA BUGid for the lazy fiekd capability. Woudl like to know more abou

Recency weightage in Lucene

2006-06-18 Thread PrasenjitM
I am thinking of modifying lucene's current ranking algorithm to include the document's recency-weightage. So that the latest modified documents gets preference over earlier modified documents, which makes sense for news search. (I believe) To do this I have to tinker with TermScorer.score() me