A multiplicative boost may work better than one added in: http://lucene.apache.org/solr/api/org/apache/solr/search/BoostQParserPlugin.html
-Yonik http://www.lucidimagination.com On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 7:21 PM, Simon Wistow <si...@thegestalt.org> wrote: > Our index has some items in it which basically contain a title and a > single word body. > > If the user searches for a word in the title (especially if title is of > itself only oen word) then that doc will get scored quite highly, > despite the fact that, in this case, it's not really relevant. > > I've tried something like > > qf=title^2.0 content^0.5 > bf=num_pages > > but that disproportionally boosts long documents to the detriment of > relevancy > > bf=product(num_pages,0.05) > > has no effect but > > bf=product(num_pages,0.06) > > > has a bunch of long documents which don't seem to return any highlighted > fields plus the short document with only the query in the title which is > progress in that it's almost exactly the opposite of what I want. > > Any suggestions? Am I going to need to reindex and add the length in > bytes or characters of the document? > > Simon
