Got it ( http://wiki.apache.org/solr/DisMaxRequestHandler#head-cfa8058622bce1baaf98607b197dc906a7f09590) . thx !
On Jan 8, 2008 12:11 AM, Chris Hostetter < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > : 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). > > note the word "mostly" in Mike's response about dismax ... the "tie" param > > lets you decide how much the other fields influence the score. Try it, > it works really well ... trust me/us. > > For the record: i'm really not sure what your question is ... you say you > want to normalize for the fact that some docs don't have a value in some > fields, but you don't want to combine the fields because it will skew the > statistics ... isn't that "skewing" exactly what you are trying to > achieve? > > don't you need to introduce some "skew" in favor of hte docs that don't > have a value for field2 to compensate forr the existing "counter skew" > they already have? > > > > -Hoss > >
