Re: Applying boosting for keyword search

2014-05-28 Thread Erick Erickson
The issue is absolute ordering (sort) and influencing (boosting). Here's an example score no boosts popularity doc1 100 1 doc2 75 2 doc3 10 3 Sorting by popularity asc will return doc1, doc2, doc3 Sorting by popularity des

Re: Applying boosting for keyword search

2014-05-27 Thread manju16832003
Hi Erick, Your explanation leads me to one question :-) if */select?q=featured:true^100&fq=make:toyota&sort=featured_date desc,price asc* The above query, without edismax, works well because, If I'm not mistaken its boosting document by value method. So I'm boosting all my documents with the va

Re: Applying boosting for keyword search

2014-05-26 Thread manju16832003
Hi Jack, Thank you for the suggestions. :-) -- View this message in context: http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/Applying-boosting-for-keyword-search-tp4137523p4138239.html Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Re: Applying boosting for keyword search

2014-05-22 Thread Erick Erickson
is. > Sometimes you have to experiment with the boost factor. > > > -- Jack Krupansky > > -Original Message- From: manju16832003 > Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2014 12:37 AM > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > Subject: Re: Applying boosting for keyword search > >

Re: Applying boosting for keyword search

2014-05-21 Thread Jack Krupansky
Krupansky -Original Message- From: manju16832003 Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2014 12:37 AM To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org Subject: Re: Applying boosting for keyword search Hi Jack, Thanks for your help. I do not want to boost *keyword* field. I apply full text search no keyword field and b

Re: Applying boosting for keyword search

2014-05-21 Thread manju16832003
Hi Jack, Thanks for your help. I do not want to boost *keyword* field. I apply full text search no keyword field and boost based on another field *featured*. Also qf field allows us to boost the field without values. I would like to boost with value Ex: qf=featured:true^100 - I don't think this

Re: Applying boosting for keyword search

2014-05-21 Thread Jack Krupansky
Just add the boost to the keyword: q=toyota^100. Or, use the dismax or edismax query parsers and then the boost can be specified for the field: qf=keyword^100. -- Jack Krupansky -Original Message- From: manju16832003 Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2014 12:04 AM To: solr-user@lucene.apache.