Then I'm totally lost as to what you're trying to accomplish. Perhaps a higher-level statement of the problem would help.
Because no matter how often I look at your point <2>, I don't see what relevance the numbers have if you're not using them to boost at index time. Why are they even there? Erick On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 8:54 PM, Jianbin Dai <j...@huawei.com> wrote: > Thank you very much Erick! > > 1. I used boost in search, but I don't know exactly what's the best way to > boost, for such as Sports 0.8, golf 0.5 in my example, would it be > sports^0.8 AND golf^0.5 ? > > > 2. I cannot use boost in indexing. Because the weight of the value changes, > not the field, look at this example again, > > C1: fruit 0.8, apple 0.4, banana 0.2 > C2: music 0.9, pop song 0.6, Britney Spears 0.4 > > There is no good way to boost it during indexing. > > Thanks. > > JB > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Erick Erickson [mailto:erickerick...@gmail.com] > Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2010 5:45 PM > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > Subject: Re: weighted search and index > > You have to provide some more details to get meaningful help. > > You say "I was trying to use boosting". How? At index time? > Search time? Both? Can you provide some code snippets? > What does your schema look like for the relevant field(s)? > > You say "but seems not working right". What does that mean? No hits? > Hits not ordered as you expect? Have you tried putting "&debugQuery=on" on > your URL and examined the return values? > > Have you looked at your index with the admin page and/or Luke to see if > the data in the index is as you expect? > > As far as I know, boosts are multiplicative. So boosting by a value less > than > 1 will actually decrease the ranking. But see the Lucene scoring, See: > > http://lucene.apache.org/java/2_4_0/api/org/apache/lucene/search/Similarity. > html<http://lucene.apache.org/java/2_4_0/api/org/apache/lucene/search/Similarity.%0Ahtml> > > And remember, that boosting will *tend* to move a hit up or down in the > ranking, not position it absolutely. > > HTH > Erick > > On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 8:13 PM, Jianbin Dai <j...@huawei.com> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I am trying to use solr for a content match application. > > > > A content is described by a set of keywords with weights associated, eg., > > > > C1: fruit 0.8, apple 0.4, banana 0.2 > > C2: music 0.9, pop song 0.6, Britney Spears 0.4 > > > > Those contents would be indexed in solr. > > In the search, I also have a set of keywords with weights: > > > > Query: Sports 0.8, golf 0.5 > > > > I am trying to find the closest matching contents for this query. > > > > My question is how to index the contents with weighted scores, and how to > > write search query. I was trying to use boosting, but seems not working > > right. > > > > Thanks. > > > > Jianbin > > > > > > > >
