Re: field length normalization

2010-03-16 Thread Lance Norskog
You need to change your similarity object to be more sensitive at the short end. This is a patch about how to do this: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-2187 It involves Lucene coding. On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 3:19 AM, muneeb wrote: > >  Ah I see. > Thanks very much Jay for your explan

Re: field length normalization

2010-03-12 Thread muneeb
Ah I see. Thanks very much Jay for your explanation, it really helped a lot. I guess I have to deal with this in some other way, since I am working with short titles and I really want short titles to appear at top. Can you suggest anything to bring titles with length 3 to appear before titles wi

Re: field length normalization

2010-03-11 Thread Jay Hill
The fieldNorm is computed like this: fieldNorm = lengthNorm * documentBoost * documentFieldBoosts and the lengthNorm is: lengthNorm = 1/(numTermsInField)**.5 [note that the value is encoded as a single byte, so there is some precision loss] So the values are not pre-set for the lengthNorm, but

Re: field length normalization

2010-03-11 Thread muneeb
: : Did you reindex after setting omitNorms to false? I'm not sure whether or : not it is needed, but it makes sense. Yes i deleted the old index and reindexed it. Just to add another fact, that the titlles length is less than 10. I am not sure if solr has pre-set values for length normalizatio

Re: field length normalization

2010-03-11 Thread Siddhant Goel
Did you reindex after setting omitNorms to false? I'm not sure whether or not it is needed, but it makes sense. On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 5:34 PM, muneeb wrote: > > Hi, > > In my schema, the document title field has "omitNorms=false", which, if I > am > not wrong, causes length of titles to be cou