Sounds like 'Doll' could be a category for you, while "Doll face" is a title. Maybe the categories should get a higher boost in eDismax definition over the titles?
Related, you may find the following book interesting: http://rosenfeldmedia.com/books/searchanalytics/ Regards, Alex. Personal blog: http://blog.outerthoughts.com/ LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/alexandrerafalovitch - Time is the quality of nature that keeps events from happening all at once. Lately, it doesn't seem to be working. (Anonymous - via GTD book) On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 4:40 AM, David Parks <davidpark...@yahoo.com> wrote: > I'm a beginner-intermediate solr admin, I've set up the basics for our > application and it runs well. > > > > Now it's time for me to dig in and start tuning and improving queries. > > > > My next target is searches on simple terms such as "doll" which, in google, > would return documents about, well, "toy dolls", because that's the most > common usage of the simple term "doll". But in my index it predominantly > returns documents about CDs with the song "Doll Face", and "My baby doll" > in > them. > > > > I'm not directly asking how to solve this as much as I'm asking what > direction I should be looking in to learn what I need to know to tackle the > general issue myself. > > > > Left on my own I would start looking at categorizing the CD's into a facet > called "music", reasonably doable in my dataset. Then I need to reduce the > boost-value of the entire facet/category of music unless certain > pre-defined > query terms exist, such as [music, cd, song, listen, dvd, <analyze actual > user queries to come up with a more exhaustive list>, etc.]. > > > > I don't yet know how to do all of this, but after a couple more good books > I > should be "dangerous". > > > > So the question to this list: > > > > - Am I on the right track here? If not, can you point me in a > direction to go? > > > > > >
