Back up another step. What are the documents and what do you want to show to the users? Have you tried the default configuration with real user queries?
After you've tested it with user queries, then look at the results where the ranking isn't performing well. Lucene and Solr already automatically boost rare terms over common terms, using tf.idf weighting. I posted more detail on this in my blog last summer: http://wunderwood.org/most_casual_observer/2006/06/good_to_great_search.html wunder On 3/10/07 8:04 PM, "shai deljo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have elements within a field that have different importance. > I thought boosting would be an elegant way to take this into account. > Please advise, > > > On 3/10/07, Walter Underwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> What are you trying to achieve? Let's start with the problem >> instead of picking one solution which Solr doesn't support. --wunder >> >> On 3/10/07 5:08 PM, "shai deljo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> How can i boost some tokens over others in the same field (at Index >>> time) ? If this is not supported directly, what's the best way around >>> this problem (what's the hack to solve this :) ). >>> Thanks, >>> Shai >> >>
