Re: Question about field boost

2013-07-23 Thread Erick Erickson
3 at 1:43 AM, Jack Krupansky >> wrote: >> > That means that for that document "china" occurs in the title vs. >> "snowden" >> > found in a document but not in the title. >> > >> > >> > -- Jack Krupansky >> > >>

Re: Question about field boost

2013-07-23 Thread Joe Zhang
Erick > > On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 1:43 AM, Jack Krupansky > wrote: > > That means that for that document "china" occurs in the title vs. > "snowden" > > found in a document but not in the title. > > > > > > -- Jack Krupansky >

Re: Question about field boost

2013-07-23 Thread Erick Erickson
Joe Zhang > Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2013 12:52 AM > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > Subject: Re: Question about field boost > > > Is my reading correct that the boost is only applied on "china" but not > "snowden"? How can that be? > > My query is:

Re: Question about field boost

2013-07-22 Thread Jack Krupansky
That means that for that document "china" occurs in the title vs. "snowden" found in a document but not in the title. -- Jack Krupansky -Original Message- From: Joe Zhang Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2013 12:52 AM To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org Subject: Re: Question a

Re: Question about field boost

2013-07-22 Thread Joe Zhang
and craft, hardly a science. >> >> Step one: Know your data, inside and out. >> >> Use the debugQuery=true parameter on your queries and see how much of the >> score is dominated by your query terms in the non-title fields. >> >> -- Jack Krupansky >> >> -

Re: Question about field boost

2013-07-22 Thread Joe Zhang
score is dominated by your query terms in the non-title fields. > > -- Jack Krupansky > > -Original Message- From: Joe Zhang > Sent: Monday, July 22, 2013 11:06 PM > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > Subject: Question about field boost > > > Dear Solr experts: > >

Re: Question about field boost

2013-07-22 Thread Jack Krupansky
in the non-title fields. -- Jack Krupansky -Original Message- From: Joe Zhang Sent: Monday, July 22, 2013 11:06 PM To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org Subject: Question about field boost Dear Solr experts: Here is my query: defType=dismax&q=term1+term2&qf=title^100 content Appa

Question about field boost

2013-07-22 Thread Joe Zhang
Dear Solr experts: Here is my query: defType=dismax&q=term1+term2&qf=title^100 content Apparently (at least I thought) my intention is to boost the title field. While I'm getting some non-trivial results, I'm surprised that the documents with both term1 and term2 in title (I know such docs do ex