Well, that's a matter of opinion, isn't it? If *your* application requires this, you could always copy the field to a non-stemmed field and apply boosts...
Erick On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 9:21 AM, abhishes <abhis...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I kind of suspected stemming to be the reason behind this. But I consider > stemming to be a good feature. > > The point is that if an exact match exists, then solr should report that > first.... and then stemmed results should be reported. > > disabling stemming altogether would be a step in the wrong direction. > > > > Shalin Shekhar Mangar wrote: > > > > On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 4:38 PM, abhishes <abhis...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> > >> I am indexing a column in a database. I have chosen field type of text > >> for > >> this column (this type was defined in the sample schema file which comes > >> in > >> the Solr Example). > >> > >> When I search for the word "impress" and top 3 results. I get these 3 > >> documents > >> > >> <str name="TEXT">bare desire pronounce villainy draught beasts blockish > >> impression acquit</str> > >> <str name="TEXT">bare impression villainy pronounce beasts desire > >> blockish > >> draught acquit</str> > >> <str name="TEXT">beasts desire villainy pronounce bare acquit impression > >> draught blockish</str> > >> > >> But here the TEXT doesn't really contain the word "impress" it contains > >> the > >> word "impression" > >> > >> Now the database does contain a few rows where the word "impress" is > >> there, > >> but those rows do not come in top 3 results. > >> > >> So my question is that why did the rows containing the word "impression" > >> got > >> ranked higher than the rows containing the word "impress" when I > searched > >> for "impress"? > >> > >> > > The "text" type is configured to do stemming on the input. So I'm > guessing > > that "impression" and "impress" both stem to the same form. You can > remove > > the EnglishPorterFilterFactory from the text type if you don't need > > stemming. > > > > -- > > Regards, > > Shalin Shekhar Mangar. > > > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://old.nabble.com/Confused-by-Solr-Ranking-tp27834227p27836299.html > Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > >
