For smaller length documents TFIDFSimilarity will weight towards shorter documents. Another way to say this, if your documents are 5-10 terms, the 5 terms are going to win. You might think about having per token, or token pair, weight. I would be surprised if there was not something similar out there. This is a common issue with any short text. I guess I would think of this as TFICF, where the CF is the corpus frequency. You also might want to weight inversely proportional to the age of the title, older are less important. This is assuming people are doing searches within some time cluster, newer is more likely.
For some obvious advice, things you probably already know. This kind of search needs some hard measurement to begin to know how to tune it. You need to find a reasonable annotated representation. So, if you took the previous months searches where there is a chain of successive searches. If you weighted things differently would you shorten the length of the chain. Can you get the click throughs to happen sooner. Anyway, just my 2 cents.... On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 6:38 PM, Sravan Kumar <sra...@caavo.com> wrote: > > @Walter: We have 6 fields declared in schema.xml for title each with > different type of analyzer. One without processing symbols, other stemmed > and other removing symbols, etc. So, if we have separate fields for each > alias it will be that many times the number of final fields declared in > schema.xml. And we exactly do not know what is the maximum number of > aliases a movie can have. > @Walter: I will try this but isn’t there any other way where I can tweak ? > > @eric: will try this. But it will work only for exact matches. > > > > On Jan 31, 2018, at 10:39 PM, Erick Erickson <erickerick...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > Or use a boost for the phrase, something like > > "beauty and the beast"^5 > > > >> On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 8:43 AM, Walter Underwood < > wun...@wunderwood.org> wrote: > >> You can use a separate field for title aliases. That is what I did for > Netflix search. > >> > >> Why disable idf? Disabling tf for titles can be a good idea, for > example the movie “New York, New York” is not twice as much about New York > as some other film that just lists it once. > >> > >> Also, consider using a popularity score as a boost. > >> > >> wunder > >> Walter Underwood > >> wun...@wunderwood.org > >> http://observer.wunderwood.org/ (my blog) > >> > >>> On Jan 31, 2018, at 4:38 AM, Sravan Kumar <sra...@caavo.com> wrote: > >>> > >>> Hi, > >>> We are using solr for our movie title search. > >>> > >>> > >>> As it is "title search", this should be treated different than the > normal > >>> document search. > >>> Hence, we use a modified version of TFIDFSimilarity with the following > >>> changes. > >>> - disabled TF & IDF and will only have 1 as value. > >>> - disabled norms by specifying omitNorms as true for all the fields. > >>> > >>> There are 6 fields with different analyzers and we make use of > different > >>> weights in edismax's qf & pf parameters to match tokens & boost > phrases. > >>> > >>> But, movies could have aliases and have multiple titles. So, we made > the > >>> fields multivalued. > >>> > >>> Now, consider the following four documents > >>> 1> "Beauty and the Beast" > >>> 2> "The Real Beauty and the Beast" > >>> 3> "Beauty and the Beast", "La bella y la bestia" > >>> 4> "Beauty and the Beast" > >>> > >>> Note: Document 3 has two titles in it. > >>> > >>> So, for a query "Beauty and the Beast" and with the above > configuration all > >>> the documents receive same score. But 1,3,4 should have got same score > and > >>> document 2 lesser than others. > >>> > >>> To solve this, we followed what is suggested in the following thread: > >>> http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/Influencing-scores- > on-values-in-multiValue-fields-td1791651.html > >>> > >>> Now, the fields which are used to boost are made to use Norms. And for > >>> matching norms are disabled. This is to make sure that exact & near > exact > >>> matches are rewarded. > >>> > >>> But, for the same query, we get the following results. > >>> query: "Beauty & the Beast" > >>> Search Results: > >>> 1> "Beauty and the Beast" > >>> 4> "Beauty and the Beast" > >>> 2> "The Real Beauty and the Beast" > >>> 3> "Beauty and the Beast", "La bella y la bestia" > >>> > >>> Clearly, the changes have solved only a part of the problem. The > document 3 > >>> should be ranked/scored higher than document 2. > >>> > >>> This is because lucene considers the total field length across all the > >>> values in a multivalued field for normalization. > >>> > >>> How do we handle this scenario and make sure that in multivalued > fields the > >>> normalization is taken care of? > >>> > >>> > >>> -- > >>> Regards, > >>> Sravan > >> >
