Re: Lucene scoring and short fields

2008-02-07 Thread Chris Hostetter
: (with basically nonsense words), I'm wondering how others might have : dealt with this issue. : : Another option is to have a custom Similarity class with an altered : lengthNorm method? that is what i would recommend ... it's exactly what SweetSpotSimilarity does (you define a "platuea" of l

Lucene scoring and short fields

2008-02-07 Thread daniel rosher
Hi All, Given that Lucene scoring can favour shorter fields in documents, in the past we've had to pad out 'unreasonably' short fields to a set minimum (with basically nonsense words), I'm wondering how others might have dealt with this issue. Another option is to have a custom Similarity class w