Re: Confused by Solr Ranking

2010-03-09 Thread Erick Erickson
t;> 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&

Re: Confused by Solr Ranking

2010-03-09 Thread Michael Lackhoff
On 09.03.2010 16:01 Ahmet Arslan wrote: > >> I kind of suspected stemming to be the reason behind this. >> But I consider stemming to be a good feature. > > This is the side effect of stemming. Stemming increases recall while harming > precision. But most people want the best possible combinat

Re: Confused by Solr Ranking

2010-03-09 Thread abhishes
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.

Re: Confused by Solr Ranking

2010-03-09 Thread Ahmet Arslan
> I kind of suspected stemming to be the reason behind this. > But I consider stemming to be a good feature. This is the side effect of stemming. Stemming increases recall while harming precision.

Re: Confused by Solr Ranking

2010-03-09 Thread Shalin Shekhar Mangar
On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 4:38 PM, abhishes 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

Re: Confused by Solr Ranking

2010-03-09 Thread Avi Rosenschein
> > > > I kind of suspected stemming to be the reason behind this. > > But I consider stemming to be a good feature. > > This is the side effect of stemming. Stemming increases recall while > harming precision. > This is a side effect of stemming, the way it is currently implemented in Lucene. Ste

Confused by Solr Ranking

2010-03-09 Thread abhishes
when I searched for "impress"? My field type Text is defined as follows in the schema. -- View this message in context: h