Hi, I ran into the same problem some time ago, couldn't find any relation to the boost values on the multivalued field and the search results. Does anybody have an idea how to handle this?
Thanks, Jaco. 2008/8/29 Sébastien Rainville <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Hi, > > I have a multivalued field that I would want to score individually for each > value. Is there an easy way to do that? > > Here's a concrete example of what I'm trying to achieve: > > Let's say that I have 3 documents with a field "name_t" and a multivalued > field "caracteristic_t_mv": > > <doc> > <field name="name_t" boost="1.0">Dog</field> > <field name="caracteristic_t_mv" boost="0.45">Cool</field> > <field name="caracteristic_t_mv" boost="0.2">Big</field> > <field name="caracteristic_t_mv" boost="0.89">Dirty</field> > </doc> > > <doc> > <field name="name_t" boost="1.0">Cat</field> > <field name="caracteristic_t_mv" boost="0.76">Small</field> > <field name="caracteristic_t_mv" boost="0.32">Dirty</field> > </doc> > > <doc> > <field name="name_t" boost="1.0">Fish</field> > <field name="caracteristic_t_mv" boost="0.92">Smells</field> > <field name="caracteristic_t_mv" boost="0.55">Dirty</field> > </doc> > > If I query only the field caracteristic_t_mv for the value "Dirty" I would > like the documents to be sorted accordingly => get 1-3-2. > > It's possible to set the scoring of a field when indexing but there are 2 > problems with that: > 1) the value of the field boost is actually the multiplication of the value > for the different boost values of the fields with the same name; > 2) the value of normField is persisted as a byte in the index and the > precision loss hurts. > > Thanks in advance, > Sebastien >
