Re: Faceted search/browse

2006-12-28 Thread Giri
Hi Yonik, Thanks for the information and suggestion. Do you have any simple tutorial that explains how to enable the faceted search in solr? I wouold appreciate if you point me to some resource. Thanks much On 12/28/06, Yonik Seeley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 12/27/06, Giri <[EMAIL PROTEC

Function boosts...

2006-12-28 Thread escher2k
I had a question about the way boosting works - is it a final boost on the score that is returned ? For instance, in the LinearFloatFunction (LinearFloatFunction(ValueSource source, float slope, float intercept)), is the ValueSource is the "core" score returned by Lucene that gets boosted. From

Re: Realtime directory change...

2006-12-28 Thread escher2k
Thanks Chris. So, assuming that we rebuild the index, delete the old data and then execute a commit, will the snap scripts take care of reconciling all the data ? Internally, is there an update timestamp notion used to figure out which unique id records have changed and then synchronize them by ex

Re: Boosting using function query...

2006-12-28 Thread Chris Hostetter
: I used the standard handler to retrieve the documents where "ghi" or "xyz" : are present (http://localhost:8983/solr/select/?q=ghi+xyz&debugQuery=1). : When the results are returned, the document with id = 50 is returned last, : since the string "ghi" is not found. I wanted to test if the score

Re: boosts?

2006-12-28 Thread Chris Hostetter
: >If not, you can add a field that is present in all documents, and add : >this as part of the query. Then you can fiddle with the index-time : >field boost to alter the results (without skewing queries that have a : >meaningful relevancy score as using document boosts would do). : : That seems t

Re: boosts?

2006-12-28 Thread Tom
At 12:03 PM 12/28/2006, you wrote: On 12/28/06, Tom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Could you index your documents in the desired order? This is the default sort order. I don't think I can control document order, as documents may get edited after creation. If not, you can add a field that is p

Re: boosts?

2006-12-28 Thread Mike Klaas
On 12/28/06, Tom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I'd recommend only using index-time boosting when you can't get the >relevance you want with query boosting and scoring. I'm not sure how I'd do it that way. What I want (what I _think_ I want :-) is a way to specify a default order for results, for

Re: boosts?

2006-12-28 Thread Tom
Hi Yonik, Thanks for the quick response. At 07:45 AM 12/28/2006, you wrote: On 12/27/06, Tom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm having a problem getting boosts to work the way I think they are supposed to. Do you have a specific relevance problem you are trying to solve, or just testing things o

Re: Faceted search/browse

2006-12-28 Thread Yonik Seeley
On 12/27/06, Giri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I am currently exploring the possibility of using faceted browsing using Solr, and got few questions. I am currently indexing some fields that has more than one value per record or e.g., a field name called metaKeyword, and the value for this contains

Re: boosts?

2006-12-28 Thread Yonik Seeley
On 12/27/06, Tom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm having a problem getting boosts to work the way I think they are supposed to. Do you have a specific relevance problem you are trying to solve, or just testing things out? What I want is for documents to be returned in doc boost order, when all