On 12/27/06, Tom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I'm having a problem getting boosts to work the way I think they are supposed to.
Do you have a specific relevance problem you are trying to solve, or just testing things out?
What I want is for documents to be returned in doc boost order, when all the queries are constant scoring range queries. (e.g. date:[2006 TO 2007])
They are *constant scoring* range queries :-) Index-time boosts currently don't factor in. [...]
I would expect to see a boost of 100 on the SP2514N, in the explanation. Should I get that?
Even if index-time boosts were factored in, you wouldn't see an explicit 'boost'. The index-time boost is multiplied by the length normalization factor for the field and the product is the "norm".
I would also expect it to be at the head of the list, but I think I'm seeing the docs in insertion order. (if I insert xd.xml before monitor.xml, I get them in insertion order in that case as well.)
I'd recommend only using index-time boosting when you can't get the relevance you want with query boosting and scoring. -Yonik
