Negative boosts? Try 0.0 to 0.99 for the negative effect. Otis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Simpy -- http://www.simpy.com/ - Tag - Search - Share
----- Original Message ---- From: Matthew Runo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org Sent: Friday, October 12, 2007 5:11:52 PM Subject: Re: dismax downweighting would a dismax boost that's negative work? ie.. name^-1 and description^-1 ? +--------------------------------------------------------+ | Matthew Runo | Zappos Development | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 702-943-7833 +--------------------------------------------------------+ On Oct 12, 2007, at 1:13 PM, Brian Whitman wrote: > i have a dismax query where I want to boost appearance of the query > terms in certain fields but "downboost" appearance in others. > > The practical use is a field containing a lot of descriptive text > and then a product name field where products might be named after a > descriptive word. Consider an electric toothbrush called "The Fast > And Thorough Toothbrush" -- if a user searches for fast toothbrush > I'd like to down-weight that particular model's advantage. The name > of the product might also be in the descriptive text. > > I tried > > <str name="qf"> > -name description > </str> > > but solr didn't like that. > > Any better ideas? > > > -- > http://variogr.am/ > > >
