: As I understood lucene's boost, if you search for "John Le Carre" it will : give better score to the results that contains just the searched string that : results that have, for example, 50 words and the search is contained in the : words. : : In Solr, my goal is to give more score to the docs that contains both words : but that have more words in the field. : : I have tried 2 options: : 1.-On index time, I check the length of the fields and if are bigger that : 'x' chars i give more boost to that doc (I am adding 3.0 extra boost using : addBoost).
rather then explicitly setting an index time boost, i would use a custom similarity class to do this -- the lengthNorm function is what you want to change. : 2.-In another hand I have been playing with tie and pf but I think they are : not helping in my issue. neither of those options will offset the penalty assigned to longer docs vs shorter docs if both match -- they will help you change the scores for docs that match on multiple fields however. : Before using Solr (my own Lucene searcher and indexer) the first option use : to work quite well, in Solr my extra boost seems to afect much less. Is this : normal as I am using DismaxQueryParser or it should be the same? try using the standard request handler to build the same query structures you are use to and make sure you're getting the expected results that way, then consider how dismax might change things. one thing to watch out for is that you really aren't doing things the same way ... it's really easy to omitNorms="true" in Solr, in which case your index time boost isn't factoring in at all. -Hoss
