If you boost the phrase queries by enough, you could tell when you hit the less relevant documents by the score.
-Yonik On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 12:07 AM, anuvenk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanks for the response. Well my current ps setting works great for most > search terms. But say this typical example, north dakota 1031 exchange > lawyers - we don't have any relevant docs in the index. Solr is returning > the irrelevant doc, just because it found 'lawyer', exchange, north & dakota > somewhere. I thought if there is a way to just not return any results if > they are not within close proximity, it would be great. > > Yonik Seeley wrote: >> >> On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 11:51 PM, anuvenk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >>> Please help someone...i've been waiting for an answer for the last couple >>> of >>> days & no one seems to be helping out here. I did search the wiki & this >>> forum for an answer. But couldn't find an answer. I know if ps is set to >>> 5 >>> words within 5 words of one another receive a boost in score. But is >>> there a >>> way to not return results that have the words in search terms more than 5 >>> words apart. ? >> >> Not with dismax. I'm not sure why it's a problem, given that with >> enough boost you should be able to ensure that all of the results with >> a slop less than 5 appear before other results. >> Anyway, if you want to restrict results to those with a slop of 5, use >> the standard query parser with an explicit sloppy phrase query: >> >> "north dakota 1031 exchange lawyers"~5 >> >> -Yonik >> >> >>> Typical example: north dakota 1031 exchange lawyers >>> My first result is absolutely ir-relevant. It returned a north dakota doc >>> though but had an occurrence of attorney somewhere & an occurrence of >>> exchange (not related to 1031 exchange though). They were not within 5 >>> words >>> of one another. My guys have been hammering me reg this relevancy issue. >>> Please help someone. >>> >>> anuvenk wrote: >>>> >>>> From the solr wiki, it sounded like if qs is set to 5 for example, & if >>>> the search term is 'child custody', only docs with 'child' & 'custody' >>>> within 5 words of one another would be returned in results. Is this >>>> correct? If so, it doesn't seem to be working for me. I see docs with >>>> 'child' & 'custody' more than 5 words of one another (excluding stop >>>> words) which is resulting in bad user experience as those docs are not >>>> so >>>> relevant. What more could i do to improve quality in the results? >>>> >>> >>> -- >>> View this message in context: >>> http://www.nabble.com/Please-Help-%21%21-Question-about-Query-Phrase-Slop-%28qs%29-in-dismax-tp20643003p20654906.html >>> Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >>> >>> >> >> > > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/Please-Help-%21%21-Question-about-Query-Phrase-Slop-%28qs%29-in-dismax-tp20643003p20655014.html > Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > >
