Hello, all I have recently been attempting to apply index-time boosts to fields using the following syntax:
<add> <doc> <field name="important_field" boost="5">bleah bleah bleah</field> <field name="standard_field" boost="2">content here</field> <field name="trivial_field">content here</field> </doc> <doc> <field name="important_field" boost="5">content here</field> <field name="standard_field" boost="2">bleah bleah bleah</field> <field name="trivial_field">content here</field> </doc> </add> The intention is that matches on important_field should be more important to score than matches on trivial_field (so that a search across all fields for the term 'content' would return the second document above the first), while still being able to use the standard query parser. Looking at output from Luke, however, all fields are reported as having a boost of 1.0. The following possibilities occur to me. (1) The entire index-time-boosting approach is misconceived (2) Luke is misreporting, because index-time boosting alters more fundamental aspects of scoring (tf-idf calculations, I suppose), and the index-time boost is thus invisible to it (3) Some combination of (1) and (2) Can anyone help illuminate the situation for me? Documentation for these questions seems patchy. Thanks, Tim
