Re: 'Down' boosting shorter docs

2009-10-15 Thread Walter Underwood
Another approach is to change the document length normalization formula. See Similarity.lengthNorm() in Lucene. wunder On Oct 15, 2009, at 12:45 AM, Andrea D'Ippolito wrote: I've read (correct me if I'm wrong) that a solution to achieve that is overboost all the other fields. but I guess this

Re: 'Down' boosting shorter docs

2009-10-15 Thread Andrea D'Ippolito
I've read (correct me if I'm wrong) that a solution to achieve that is overboost all the other fields. but I guess this works easily only if u have few fields indexed ;) bye 2009/10/15 Simon Wistow > Our index has some items in it which basically contain a title and a > single word body. > > If

Re: 'Down' boosting shorter docs

2009-10-14 Thread Yonik Seeley
A multiplicative boost may work better than one added in: http://lucene.apache.org/solr/api/org/apache/solr/search/BoostQParserPlugin.html -Yonik http://www.lucidimagination.com On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 7:21 PM, Simon Wistow wrote: > Our index has some items in it which basically contain a titl