What exactly is phrase and query slop? What technically is a slop?

Bill Bell
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On Mar 11, 2011, at 4:15 AM, Gastone Penzo <gastone.pe...@gmail.com> wrote:

> ok thank you!!!
> 
> 2011/3/10 Jonathan Rochkind <rochk...@jhu.edu>
> 
>> On 3/10/2011 8:15 AM, Gastone Penzo wrote:
>> 
>>> Thank you very much. i understand the difference beetween qs and ps but
>>> not
>>> what pf is...is it necessary to use ps?
>>> 
>> 
>> It's not neccesary to use anything, including Solr.
>> 
>> pf:  Will take the entire query the user entered, make it into a single
>> phrase, and boost documents within the already existing result set that
>> match that phrase. pf does not change the result set, it just changes the
>> ranking.
>> ps: Will set phrase query slop on that pf query of the entire entered
>> search string, that effects boosting.
>> 
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> Gastone Penzo

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