Would result grouping work here? If the group key was "paid", then
you'd get two groups back, "paid" an "unpaid". Within each group you'd
have results ordered by rank. This would work for a page or two, but
eventually you'd be in a spot where you'd have to over sample, i.e.
return pages*X in each group to be able to page very deeply.
Or you could just fire two queries and have the app assemble the final list.
Best,
Erick
On Sat, Oct 10, 2015 at 8:13 AM, Upayavira <u...@odoko.co.uk> wrote:
> I've seen a similar requirement to this recently.
>
> Basically, a sorting requirement that is close to impossible to
> implement as a scoring/boosting formula, because the *position* of the
> result features in the score, and that's not something I believe can be
> done right now.
>
> The way we solved the issue in the similar case I referred to above was
> by using a RerankQuery. That query class has a getTopDocsCollector()
> function, which you can override, providing your own Collector.
>
> If you then refer to your query(actually your query parser) with the
> rerank query param in Solr: rq={!myRerankQuery} then it will trigger
> your new collector, which will be given its topDocs() method is called,
> will call topDocs on its parent query, get a list of documents, then
> order them in some way such as you require, and return them in a
> non-score order.
>
> Not sure I've made that very clear, but hope it helps a little.
>
> Upayavira
>
> On Sat, Oct 10, 2015, at 03:13 PM, liviuchrist...@yahoo.com.INVALID
> wrote:
>> Hi Upayavira & Walter & everyone else
>>
>> About the requirements:1. I need to return no more than 3 paid results on
>> a page of 12 results2. Paid results should be sorted like this: let's say
>> a user is searching for: "chocolate almonds cake"Now, lets say that 2000
>> results match the query and there are about 10 of these that are "paid
>> results".I need to list the first 3 (1-2-3) of the paid results (in their
>> ranking decreasing order) on the first page (maybe by improving the
>> ranking of the 20 paid results over the non-paid ones and listing the
>> first 3 of them.) and then listing 9 non-paid results on the page in
>> their ranking decreasing order.
>> Then, on the second page, I want to list first the next 3 paid results
>> (4-5-6) and so on.
>>
>> Kind regards,Christian
>> Christian Fotache Tel: 0728.297.207
>>
>> From: Upayavira <u...@odoko.co.uk>
>> To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org
>> Sent: Thursday, October 8, 2015 7:03 PM
>> Subject: Re: How to show some documents ahead of others
>>
>> Hence the suggestion to group by the paid field - would give you two
>> lists of the number you ask for.
>>
>> What I'm trying to say is that the QueryElevationComponent might do it,
>> but it is also relatively clunky, so a pure search solution might do it.
>>
>> However, the thing we lack right now is a full take on the requirements,
>> e.g. how should paid results be sorted, how many paid results do you
>> show, etc, etc. Without these details we're all guessing.
>>
>> Upayavira
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 8, 2015, at 04:45 PM, Walter Underwood wrote:
>> > Sorting all paid above all unpaid will give bad results when there are
>> > many matches. It will show 1000 paid items, include all the barely
>> > relevant ones, before it shows the first highly relevant unpaid recipe.
>> > What if that was the only correct result?
>> >
>> > Two approaches that work:
>> >
>> > 1. Boost paid items using the “boost” parameter in edismax. Adjust it to
>> > be a tiebreaker between documents with similar score.
>> >
>> > 2. Show two lists, one with the five most relevant paid, the next with
>> > the five most relevant unpaid.
>> >
>> > wunder
>> > Walter Underwood
>> > wun...@wunderwood.org
>> > http://observer.wunderwood.org/ (my blog)
>> >
>> >
>> > > On Oct 8, 2015, at 7:39 AM, Alessandro Benedetti
>> > > <benedetti.ale...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > >
>> > > Is it possible to understand better this : "as it doesn't
>> > > allow any meaningful customization " ?
>> > >
>> > > Cheers
>> > >
>> > > On 8 October 2015 at 15:27, Andrea Roggerone
>> > > <andrearoggerone.o...@gmail.com
>> > >> wrote:
>> > >
>> > >> Hi guys,
>> > >> I don't think that sorting is a good solution in this case as it doesn't
>> > >> allow any meaningful customization.I believe that the advised
>> > >> QueryElevationComponent is one of the viable alternative. Another one
>> > >> would
>> > >> be to boost at query time a particular field, like for instance paid.
>> > >> That
>> > >> would allow you to assign different boosts to different values using a
>> > >> function.
>> > >>
>> > >> On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 1:48 PM, Upayavira <u...@odoko.co.uk> wrote:
>> > >>
>> > >>> Or just have a field in your index -
>> > >>>
>> > >>> paid: true/false
>> > >>>
>> > >>> Then sort=paid desc, score desc
>> > >>>
>> > >>> (you may need to sort paid asc, not sure which way a boolean would
>> > >>> sort)
>> > >>>
>> > >>> Question is whether you want to show ALL paid posts, or just a set of
>> > >>> them. For the latter you could use result grouping on the paid field.
>> > >>>
>> > >>> Upayavira
>> > >>>
>> > >>> On Thu, Oct 8, 2015, at 01:34 PM, NutchDev wrote:
>> > >>>> Hi Christian,
>> > >>>>
>> > >>>> You can take a look at Solr's QueryElevationComponent
>> > >>>> <https://wiki.apache.org/solr/QueryElevationComponent> .
>> > >>>>
>> > >>>> It will allow you to configure the top results for a given query
>> > >>>> regardless
>> > >>>> of the normal lucene scoring. Also you can specify exclude document
>> > >> list
>> > >>>> to
>> > >>>> exclude certain results for perticular query.
>> > >>>>
>> > >>>>
>> > >>>>
>> > >>>>
>> > >>>>
>> > >>>> --
>> > >>>> View this message in context:
>> > >>>>
>> > >>>
>> > >> http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/How-to-show-some-documents-ahead-of-others-tp4233481p4233490.html
>> > >>>> Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
>> > >>>
>> > >>
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > --
>> > > --------------------------
>> > >
>> > > Benedetti Alessandro
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>> > > Blog - http://alexbenedetti.blogspot.co.uk
>> > >
>> > > "Tyger, tyger burning bright
>> > > In the forests of the night,
>> > > What immortal hand or eye
>> > > Could frame thy fearful symmetry?"
>> > >
>> > > William Blake - Songs of Experience -1794 England
>> >
>>
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