We don't want to limit the number of results coming back, so unfortunately grouping doesn't quite fix it, plus it would, by nature, group docs by a particular Author together which might not necessarily be adjacent.
On Thu, 6 Oct 2011 07:16:48 -0700 (PDT), Ahmet Arslan <iori...@yahoo.com> wrote: >> For the sake of simplicity, I have an index with docs >> containing the following fields: >> >> Title >> Description >> Author >> >> Some searches will obviously be saturated by docs from any >> given author if they've simply written more. >> >> I'd like to give a negative boost to these matches, >> there-by making sure that 1 Author doesn't saturate the >> results just because they've written 500 documents, compared >> to others who may have only written 2-3 documents. >> >> The actual author value doesn't matter, I just want to >> bring down the score of docs by any common author to give >> more varied results. >> >> What's the easiest approach for this, and is it even >> possible at query time? I could do this at index time >> but would prefer a Solr solution. >> >> Solr 3.4 using edismax handler > > You can consider grouping results by author name. Display 2-3 results > per author, and put a link saying "see remaining xxx documents of this > author" > > http://wiki.apache.org/solr/FieldCollapsing
