Re: Question About Boosting.

2007-03-12 Thread shai deljo
Buckets it is :) Thx On 3/12/07, Chris Hostetter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : I thought about this option but it doesn't sound scalable. What : happens if i have 100 words with 100 different boost factors? then you've got a problem :) typically it's not this severe ... i'll frequently have ha

Re: Question About Boosting.

2007-03-12 Thread Chris Hostetter
: I thought about this option but it doesn't sound scalable. What : happens if i have 100 words with 100 different boost factors? then you've got a problem :) typically it's not this severe ... i'll frequently have half a dozen fields that i divide text up into to boost on different amounts, but

Re: Question About Boosting.

2007-03-12 Thread shai deljo
I thought about this option but it doesn't sound scalable. What happens if i have 100 words with 100 different boost factors? On 3/12/07, Chris Hostetter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : I have elements within a field that have different importance. : I thought boosting would be an elegant way to t

Re: Question About Boosting.

2007-03-12 Thread Chris Hostetter
: I have elements within a field that have different importance. : I thought boosting would be an elegant way to take this into account. : Please advise, typically if you know when sending hte doc to solr that certian words/phrases of field A are extremely significant for that document, the simpl

Re: Question About Boosting.

2007-03-11 Thread Mike Klaas
On 3/11/07, shai deljo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thanks, The only way i found to do this (http://www.mail-archive.com/solr-user@lucene.apache.org/msg02456.html) is to hack and repeat the word several times in the field, but doesn't this screw up the norms? Yes, it can influence the norms. A

Re: Question About Boosting.

2007-03-11 Thread shai deljo
Thanks, The only way i found to do this (http://www.mail-archive.com/solr-user@lucene.apache.org/msg02456.html) is to hack and repeat the word several times in the field, but doesn't this screw up the norms? Also, how do i boost words in a query? e.g. q=key1 key2 and i know key2 is twice as import

Re: Question About Boosting.

2007-03-11 Thread Walter Underwood
Back up another step. What are the documents and what do you want to show to the users? Have you tried the default configuration with real user queries? After you've tested it with user queries, then look at the results where the ranking isn't performing well. Lucene and Solr already automaticall

Re: Question About Boosting.

2007-03-10 Thread shai deljo
I have elements within a field that have different importance. I thought boosting would be an elegant way to take this into account. Please advise, On 3/10/07, Walter Underwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What are you trying to achieve? Let's start with the problem instead of picking one solutio

Re: Question About Boosting.

2007-03-10 Thread Walter Underwood
What are you trying to achieve? Let's start with the problem instead of picking one solution which Solr doesn't support. --wunder On 3/10/07 5:08 PM, "shai deljo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How can i boost some tokens over others in the same field (at Index > time) ? If this is not supported di

Question About Boosting.

2007-03-10 Thread shai deljo
How can i boost some tokens over others in the same field (at Index time) ? If this is not supported directly, what's the best way around this problem (what's the hack to solve this :) ). Thanks, Shai