could i do that the same way as my mention of using bq? the docs aren't very rich in their example or explanation of boost= here: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/solr/The+Extended+DisMax+Query+Parser
thanks! -- *John Blythe* Product Manager & Lead Developer 251.605.3071 | j...@curvolabs.com www.curvolabs.com 58 Adams Ave Evansville, IN 47713 On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 3:13 PM, Walter Underwood <wun...@wunderwood.org> wrote: > I highly recommend using boost= in edismax rather than bq=. The > multiplicative boost is stable with a wide range of scores. bq is additive > and has problems with high or low scores. > > wunder > Walter Underwood > wun...@wunderwood.org > http://observer.wunderwood.org/ (my blog) > > On May 20, 2015, at 1:04 PM, John Blythe <j...@curvolabs.com> wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > I've been fine tuning our current Solr implementation the last week or > two > > to get more precise results. We are trying to get our implementation > > accurate enough to serve as a lightweight machine learning (obviously a > > misnomer) implementation of sorts. Actual user generated searching is far > > secondary for our purposes. > > > > I've gotten our results to go from confidence scores of ~40-60 for good > > results to the 700s. So far so good. Edismax seems like it has some > > promising features, but I'm wondering if it'll be very helpful for our > > purposes. The only thing that jumps out immediately to me is the bq > ability > > in which one of our non-primary fields is used as a means of boosting. In > > other words, when using our three fields—manufacturer, part number, and > > description—to find a part, we could bq the category or size field to > help > > eliminate false positives from appearing. > > > > Is there anything else that you think I should look into regarding > edismax > > that could be helpful to our end game? > > > > Thanks for any ideas! > >
