Re: 'Down' boosting shorter docs

2009-10-15 Thread Walter Underwood
Another approach is to change the document length normalization formula. See Similarity.lengthNorm() in Lucene. wunder On Oct 15, 2009, at 12:45 AM, Andrea D'Ippolito wrote: I've read (correct me if I'm wrong) that a solution to achieve that is overboost all the other fields. but I guess this

Re: 'Down' boosting shorter docs

2009-10-15 Thread Andrea D'Ippolito
I've read (correct me if I'm wrong) that a solution to achieve that is overboost all the other fields. but I guess this works easily only if u have few fields indexed ;) bye 2009/10/15 Simon Wistow > Our index has some items in it which basically contain a title and a > single word body. > > If

Re: 'Down' boosting shorter docs

2009-10-14 Thread Yonik Seeley
A multiplicative boost may work better than one added in: http://lucene.apache.org/solr/api/org/apache/solr/search/BoostQParserPlugin.html -Yonik http://www.lucidimagination.com On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 7:21 PM, Simon Wistow wrote: > Our index has some items in it which basically contain a titl

'Down' boosting shorter docs

2009-10-14 Thread Simon Wistow
Our index has some items in it which basically contain a title and a single word body. If the user searches for a word in the title (especially if title is of itself only oen word) then that doc will get scored quite highly, despite the fact that, in this case, it's not really relevant. I've t