The Lucene norms, if set, are 1/number of terms in the field. I cannot find a function that makes norms available. Yo gurus- is this impossible, a bad idea, or just an oversight?
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 6:06 AM, Tomasz Kępski <tom...@kepski.pl> wrote: > Hi, > >> I think i'm reading he question differently then Grant -- his suggestion >> applies when you are searching in the description field, and don't want >> documents with shorter descriptions to score higher when the same terms >> match the same number of times (the default behavior of lengthNorm) > >> my udnerstanding is that you want documents that don't have a description >> to score lower then documents that do -- and you might be querying against >> completely differnet fields (description might not even be indexed) >> >> in that case there is no easy way to to achieve this with just the >> description field ... the easy thing to do is to index a boolean >> "has_description" field and then incorporate that into your query (or as the >> input to a function query) > > You get my point Hoss. In my case long description = good value. And your > intuition is amazing ;-) I do have a field which is not used in search at > all (image url) but docs with image have for me greater value than without > it. > > I would add two fields then (boolean for photo and int for description > length) fill them up during indexation and would play with them during the > search. > > Thanks, > Tom > > -- Lance Norskog goks...@gmail.com
