Dismax QueryParser with pf and ps params?

http://wiki.apache.org/solr/DisMaxRequestHandler

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- Mark

http://www.lucidimagination.com



Michael wrote:
Anybody have any suggestions or hints?  I'd love to score my queries in a
way that pays attention to how close together terms appear.
Michael

On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 12:01 PM, Michael <solrco...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello,
I'd like to score documents higher that have the user's search terms nearer
each other.  For example, if a user searches for

  a AND b AND c

the standard query handler should return all documents with [a] [b] and [c]
in them, but documents matching the phrase "a b c" should get a boost over
those with "a x b c" over those with "b x y c z a", etc.

To accomplish this, I thought I might replace the user's query with

  "a b c"~1000000000

hoping that the slop term gets a higher and higher score the closer
together [a] [b] and [c] appear.  This doesn't seem to be the case in my
experiments; when I debug the query, there's no component of the score based
on how close together [a] [b] and [c] are.  And I'm suspicious that this
would make my queries a whole lot slower -- in reality my users' queries get
expanded quite a bit already, and I'd thus need to add many slop terms.

Perhaps instead I could modify the Standard query handler to examine the
distance between all ANDed tokens, and boost proportionally to the inverse
of their average distance apart.  I've never modified a query handler before
so I have no idea if this is possible.

Any suggestions on what approach I should take?  The less I have to modify
Solr, the better -- I'd prefer a query-side solution over writing a plugin
over forking the standard query handler.

Thanks in advance!
Michael






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