Re: Boosting a document score when advertised! Please help!

2015-11-05 Thread Walter Underwood
The elevation component will be a ton of manual work. Instead, use edismax and the boost parameter. Add a field that is true for paid documents, then boost for paid:true. It might be easier to use a boost query (bq) to do this. The extra boost will be a tiebreaker for documents that would have

Re: Boosting a document score when advertised! Please help!

2015-11-05 Thread Doug Turnbull
Funny I'm editing a chapter about boosting for a book :) http://manning.com/turnbull Anyway, I've been told by others that this blog post I wrote was really useful in teaching them how to carefully boost documents. Maybe it would help you? http://opensourceconnections.com/blog/2013/07/21/improve-s

Re: Boosting a document score when advertised! Please help!

2015-11-05 Thread Paul Libbrecht
Alessandro, none of them seem to match what I'd expect be done: given an extra param that indicates the author, for each query, add an extra boosting. Christian, I used to do that with a query component (in java) but I think that nowadays you can do that with the bq parameter of edismax. paul

Re: Boosting a document score when advertised! Please help!

2015-11-05 Thread Alessandro Benedetti
Hi Christian, there are several ways : 1) Elevation query component - it should be your winner : https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/solr/The+Query+Elevation+Component 2) Play with boosting according to your requirements Cheers On 5 November 2015 at 10:52, wrote: > Hi everyone,I'm bui