Re: Confused by Solr Ranking

2010-03-09 Thread Erick Erickson
Well, that's a matter of opinion, isn't it? If *your* application requires this, you could always copy the field to a non-stemmed field and apply boosts... Erick On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 9:21 AM, abhishes wrote: > > I kind of suspected stemming to be the reason behind this. But I consider > stemm

Re: Confused by Solr Ranking

2010-03-09 Thread Michael Lackhoff
On 09.03.2010 16:01 Ahmet Arslan wrote: > >> I kind of suspected stemming to be the reason behind this. >> But I consider stemming to be a good feature. > > This is the side effect of stemming. Stemming increases recall while harming > precision. But most people want the best possible combinat

Re: Confused by Solr Ranking

2010-03-09 Thread abhishes
I kind of suspected stemming to be the reason behind this. But I consider stemming to be a good feature. The point is that if an exact match exists, then solr should report that first and then stemmed results should be reported. disabling stemming altogether would be a step in the wrong dire

Re: Confused by Solr Ranking

2010-03-09 Thread Ahmet Arslan
> I kind of suspected stemming to be the reason behind this. > But I consider stemming to be a good feature. This is the side effect of stemming. Stemming increases recall while harming precision.

Re: Confused by Solr Ranking

2010-03-09 Thread Shalin Shekhar Mangar
On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 4:38 PM, abhishes wrote: > > I am indexing a column in a database. I have chosen field type of text for > this column (this type was defined in the sample schema file which comes in > the Solr Example). > > When I search for the word "impress" and top 3 results. I get these

Re: Confused by Solr Ranking

2010-03-09 Thread Avi Rosenschein
> > > > I kind of suspected stemming to be the reason behind this. > > But I consider stemming to be a good feature. > > This is the side effect of stemming. Stemming increases recall while > harming precision. > This is a side effect of stemming, the way it is currently implemented in Lucene. Ste