I believe that boost is a superset of the bq functionality. wunder Walter Underwood wun...@wunderwood.org http://observer.wunderwood.org/ (my blog)
On May 20, 2015, at 1:16 PM, John Blythe <j...@curvolabs.com> wrote: > could i do that the same way as my mention of using bq? the docs aren't > very rich in their example or explanation of boost= here: > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/solr/The+Extended+DisMax+Query+Parser > > thanks! > > -- > *John Blythe* > Product Manager & Lead Developer > > 251.605.3071 | j...@curvolabs.com > www.curvolabs.com > > 58 Adams Ave > Evansville, IN 47713 > > On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 3:13 PM, Walter Underwood <wun...@wunderwood.org> > wrote: > >> I highly recommend using boost= in edismax rather than bq=. The >> multiplicative boost is stable with a wide range of scores. bq is additive >> and has problems with high or low scores. >> >> wunder >> Walter Underwood >> wun...@wunderwood.org >> http://observer.wunderwood.org/ (my blog) >> >> On May 20, 2015, at 1:04 PM, John Blythe <j...@curvolabs.com> wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> I've been fine tuning our current Solr implementation the last week or >> two >>> to get more precise results. We are trying to get our implementation >>> accurate enough to serve as a lightweight machine learning (obviously a >>> misnomer) implementation of sorts. Actual user generated searching is far >>> secondary for our purposes. >>> >>> I've gotten our results to go from confidence scores of ~40-60 for good >>> results to the 700s. So far so good. Edismax seems like it has some >>> promising features, but I'm wondering if it'll be very helpful for our >>> purposes. The only thing that jumps out immediately to me is the bq >> ability >>> in which one of our non-primary fields is used as a means of boosting. In >>> other words, when using our three fields—manufacturer, part number, and >>> description—to find a part, we could bq the category or size field to >> help >>> eliminate false positives from appearing. >>> >>> Is there anything else that you think I should look into regarding >> edismax >>> that could be helpful to our end game? >>> >>> Thanks for any ideas! >> >>
