Isn't there a better way to take the information into account but still normalize? taking the score of only one of the fields doesn't sound like the best thing to do (it's basically ignoring part of the information).
On Jan 7, 2008 9:20 PM, Mike Klaas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 7-Jan-08, at 9:02 PM, s d wrote: > > > e.g. if the index is field1 and field2 and documents of type (A) > > always have > > information for field1 AND information for field2 while document of > > type (B) > > always have information for field1 but NEVER information for field2. > > The problem is that the formula will sum field1 and field2 hence > > skewing in > > favour of documents of type (A). > > If i combine the 2 fields into 1 field (in an attempt to normalize) > > i will > > obviously skew the statistics. > > Try the dismax handler. It's main goal is to query multiple fields > while only counting the score of the highest-scoring one (mostly). > > -Mike >
