Thanks for the recommendation. I'll start this book today. In my example, "doll" is one example of a million I might only guess at, whereas the category "music", and "book" tend to interferes in many places and seem to be a more limited set of categories to deal with.
Dave -----Original Message----- From: Alexandre Rafalovitch [mailto:arafa...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2013 12:01 AM To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org Subject: Re: Search strategy - improving search quality for short search terms such as "doll" Sounds like 'Doll' could be a category for you, while "Doll face" is a title. Maybe the categories should get a higher boost in eDismax definition over the titles? Related, you may find the following book interesting: http://rosenfeldmedia.com/books/searchanalytics/ Regards, Alex. Personal blog: http://blog.outerthoughts.com/ LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/alexandrerafalovitch - Time is the quality of nature that keeps events from happening all at once. Lately, it doesn't seem to be working. (Anonymous - via GTD book) On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 4:40 AM, David Parks <davidpark...@yahoo.com> wrote: > I'm a beginner-intermediate solr admin, I've set up the basics for our > application and it runs well. > > > > Now it's time for me to dig in and start tuning and improving queries. > > > > My next target is searches on simple terms such as "doll" which, in > google, would return documents about, well, "toy dolls", because > that's the most common usage of the simple term "doll". But in my > index it predominantly returns documents about CDs with the song "Doll Face", > and "My baby doll" > in > them. > > > > I'm not directly asking how to solve this as much as I'm asking what > direction I should be looking in to learn what I need to know to > tackle the general issue myself. > > > > Left on my own I would start looking at categorizing the CD's into a > facet called "music", reasonably doable in my dataset. Then I need to > reduce the boost-value of the entire facet/category of music unless > certain pre-defined query terms exist, such as [music, cd, song, > listen, dvd, <analyze actual user queries to come up with a more > exhaustive list>, etc.]. > > > > I don't yet know how to do all of this, but after a couple more good > books I should be "dangerous". > > > > So the question to this list: > > > > - Am I on the right track here? If not, can you point me in a > direction to go? > > > > > >
