Thanks for the reply. Hopefully I'll get more, and turn this into a mini project I can commit back to the project, or at least make available to anyone who'd like the functionality. Of course, if I'm the only one who cares, it could be a long road. :)
gene On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 9:41 AM, Ensdorf Ken <ensd...@zoominfo.com> wrote: >> Hello Solrites (or Solrorians) > > I prefer "Solrdier" :) > >> >> Is it possible to get the average ranking score for a set of docs that >> would be returned for a given facet value. >> >> If not in SOLR, what about Lucene? >> >> How hard to implement? >> >> I have years of Java experience, but no Lucene coding experience. >> >> Would be happy to implement if someone could guide me. >> >> thanks >> Gene >> > > I don't know much about the implementation, but it seems to me it should be > possible to sum up the scores as the matching facet terms are gathered and > counted. According to the docs there are 2 algorithms that do this - one > enumerates all the unique values of the facet field and does an intersetion > with the query, and the other scans the result set and sums up the unique > values in the facet field for each doc. I would start by looking at the > source for the FacetComponent (org.apache.solr.handler.component) and > SimpleFacets (org.apache.solr.request) classes. > > Sorry I can't be of more help - it seems like an interesting challenge! > > Onward... > -Ken >
