OK, why can't you switch the clauses from Joel's suggestion?
Something like:
q=Malaysia plane crash&rq={!rerank reRankDocs=1000
reRankQuery=$myquery}&myquery=*:*&sort=date+desc
(haven't tried this yet, but you get the idea....).
Best,
Erick
On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 9:33 AM, Markus Jelsma
<markus.jel...@openindex.io> wrote:
> Hi - You can already achieve this by boosting on the document's recency. The
> result set won't be exactly ordered by date but you will get the most
> relevant and recent documents on top.
>
> Markus
>
> -----Original message-----
>> From:Ravi Solr <ravis...@gmail.com <mailto:ravis...@gmail.com> >
>> Sent: Friday 5th September 2014 18:06
>> To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org <mailto:solr-user@lucene.apache.org>
>> Subject: Re: Query ReRanking question
>>
>> Thank you very much for responding. I want to do exactly the opposite of
>> what you said. I want to sort the relevant docs in reverse chronology. If
>> you sort by date before hand then the relevancy is lost. So I want to get
>> Top N relevant results and then rerank those Top N to achieve relevant
>> reverse chronological results.
>>
>> If you ask Why would I want to do that ??
>>
>> Lets take a example about Malaysian airline crash. several articles might
>> have been published over a period of time. When I search for - malaysia
>> airline crash blackbox - I would want to see "relevant" results but would
>> also like to see the the recent developments on the top i.e. effectively a
>> reverse chronological order within the relevant results, like telling a
>> story over a period of time
>>
>> Hope i am clear. Thanks for your help.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Ravi Kiran Bhaskar
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 5:08 PM, Joel Bernstein <joels...@gmail.com
>> <mailto:joels...@gmail.com> > wrote:
>>
>> > If you want the main query to be sorted by date then the top N docs
>> > reranked by a query, that should work. Try something like this:
>> >
>> > q=foo&sort=date+desc&rq={!rerank reRandDocs=1000
>> > reRankQuery=$myquery}&myquery=blah
>> >
>> >
>> > Joel Bernstein
>> > Search Engineer at Heliosearch
>> >
>> >
>> > On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 4:25 PM, Ravi Solr <ravis...@gmail.com
>> > <mailto:ravis...@gmail.com> > wrote:
>> >
>> > > Can the ReRanking API be used to sort within docs retrieved by a date
>> > field
>> > > ? Can somebody help me understand how to write such a query ?
>> > >
>> > > Thanks
>> > >
>> > > Ravi Kiran Bhaskar
>> > >
>> >
>>
>
