Re: the time factor

2008-05-20 Thread Chris Hostetter
: similar. In my case, if I want to rank the most recent documents first : (because it's about news), I have to use very large boost, which will : end up getting the docs that are not so relevant to the top. I haven't it sounds like you only attempted tweaking the boost value, and not tweaking t

Re: the time factor

2008-05-20 Thread Otis Gospodnetic
gt; To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2008 3:59:06 PM > Subject: Re: the time factor > > Hi Otis, > > I tried this. It doesn't seem to solve my problem, though. I think > it's best used to make small adjustment when relevance scores are > sim

Re: the time factor

2008-05-20 Thread Jack
Hi Otis, I tried this. It doesn't seem to solve my problem, though. I think it's best used to make small adjustment when relevance scores are similar. In my case, if I want to rank the most recent documents first (because it's about news), I have to use very large boost, which will end up getting

Re: the time factor

2008-05-13 Thread Otis Gospodnetic
Jack, The answer is: function queries! :) You can easily use function queries with DisMaxRequestHandler. For example, this is what you can add to the dismax config section in solrconfig.xml: recip(rord(addDate),1,1000,1000)^2.5 Assuming you have an addDate field, this will