If you could move to 3.x and your "linked item" boosts could be calculated offline in batch periodically you could use an external file field to store the doc boost.
a few If's though On 8 June 2011 03:23, Jeff Boul <zbou...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to figure out options for the following problem. I am on > Solr 1.4.1 (Lucene 2.9.1). > > I need to perform a boost on a query related to the value of a multiple > value field. > > Lets say the result return the following documents: > > id name linked_items > 3 doc3 (item1, item33, item55) > 8 doc8 (item2, item55, item8) > 0 doc0 (item7) > 1 doc1 (item1) > .... > > I want the result to be boosted regarding the foollowing ordered list of > linked_items values: > > item2 > item55 > item1 > ... > > So doc8 will received the higher boost because his 'linked_items' contains > 'item2' > then doc3 will received a lower boost because his 'linked_items' contains > 'item55' > then doc1 will received a much lower boost because his 'linked_items' > contains 'item1' > and maybe doc0 will received some boost if 'item7' is somewhere in the list. > > The tricky part is that the ordered list is obtained by querying on an other > index. So the result of the query on the other index will give me a result > and I will use the values of one field of those documents to construct the > ordered list. > > It would be even better if the boost not use only the order but also the > score of the result of the query on the other index. > > I'm not very used to Solr and Lucene but from what I read, I think that the > solution turns around a customization of the Query object. > > So the questions are: > > 1) Am I right with the Query's cutomization assumption? (if so... can > someone could give me advices or point me an example of something related) > 2) Is something already exist that i could use to do that? > 3) Is that a good approach to use separate index? > > Thanks for the help > > Jeff > > -- > View this message in context: > http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/Boosting-result-on-query-tp3037649p3037649.html > Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >
