The problem, and it's a practical one, is that terms usually have to be pretty close to each other for proximity to matter, and you can get this with phrase queries by varying the slop.
FWIW Erick On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 11:05 AM, Andrew Cogan <aco...@wordsearchbible.com>wrote: > I'm a total Lucene/SOLR newbie, and I'm surprised to see that when there > are > multiple search terms, term proximity isn't part of the scoring process. > Has > anyone on the list done custom scoring that weights proximity? > > Andy Cogan > > -----Original Message----- > From: kenf_nc [mailto:ken.fos...@realestate.com] > Sent: Friday, September 17, 2010 7:06 AM > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > Subject: Re: Can i do relavence and sorting together? > > > Those are at least 3 different questions. Easiest first, sorting. > add &sort=ad_post_date+desc (or asc) for sorting on date, > descending or ascending > > check out how > http://www.supermind.org/blog/378/lucene-scoring-for-dummies > Lucene scores by default. It might close to what you want. The only thing > it isn't doing that you are looking for is the relative distance between > keywords in a document. > > You can add a boost to the ad_title and ad_description fields to make them > more important to your search. > > My guess is, although I haven't done this myself, the default Scoring > algorithm can be augmented or replaced with your own. That may be a route > to > take if you are comfortable with java. > -- > View this message in context: > > http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/Can-i-do-relavence-and-sorting-together-t > p1516587p1516691.html > Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > >
