I'm not sure I understand, Erick. I don't have a "text" field in my schema; "title" and "content" are both legal fields.
On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 5:15 AM, Erick Erickson <erickerick...@gmail.com>wrote: > this isn't doing what you think. > title^10 content > is actually parsed as > > text:title^100 text:content > > where "text" is my default search field. > > assuming title is a field. If you look a little > farther up the debug output you'll see that. > > You probably want > title:content^100 or some such? > > Erick > > On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 1:43 AM, Jack Krupansky <j...@basetechnology.com> > wrote: > > That means that for that document "china" occurs in the title vs. > "snowden" > > found in a document but not in the title. > > > > > > -- Jack Krupansky > > > > -----Original Message----- From: Joe Zhang > > Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2013 12:52 AM > > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > > Subject: Re: Question about field boost > > > > > > Is my reading correct that the boost is only applied on "china" but not > > "snowden"? How can that be? > > > > My query is: q=china+snowden&qf=title^10 content > > > > > > On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 9:43 PM, Joe Zhang <smartag...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> Thanks for your hint, Jack. Here is the debug results, which I'm having > a > >> hard deciphering (the two terms are "china" and "snowden")... > >> > >> 0.26839527 = (MATCH) sum of: > >> 0.26839527 = (MATCH) sum of: > >> 0.26757246 = (MATCH) max of: > >> 7.9147343E-4 = (MATCH) weight(content:china in 249), product of: > >> 0.019873314 = queryWeight(content:china), product of: > >> 1.6649085 = idf(docFreq=46832, maxDocs=91058) > >> 0.01193658 = queryNorm > >> 0.039825942 = (MATCH) fieldWeight(content:china in 249), product > >> of: > >> 4.8989797 = tf(termFreq(content:china)=24) > >> 1.6649085 = idf(docFreq=46832, maxDocs=91058) > >> 0.0048828125 = fieldNorm(field=content, doc=249) > >> 0.26757246 = (MATCH) weight(title:china^10.0 in 249), product of: > >> 0.5836803 = queryWeight(title:china^10.0), product of: > >> 10.0 = boost > >> 4.8898454 = idf(docFreq=1861, maxDocs=91058) > >> 0.01193658 = queryNorm > >> 0.45842302 = (MATCH) fieldWeight(title:china in 249), product > of: > >> 1.0 = tf(termFreq(title:china)=1) > >> 4.8898454 = idf(docFreq=1861, maxDocs=91058) > >> 0.09375 = fieldNorm(field=title, doc=249) > >> 8.2282536E-4 = (MATCH) max of: > >> 8.2282536E-4 = (MATCH) weight(content:snowden in 249), product of: > >> 0.03407834 = queryWeight(content:snowden), product of: > >> 2.8549502 = idf(docFreq=14246, maxDocs=91058) > >> 0.01193658 = queryNorm > >> 0.024145111 = (MATCH) fieldWeight(content:snowden in 249), > product > >> of: > >> 1.7320508 = tf(termFreq(content:snowden)=3) > >> 2.8549502 = idf(docFreq=14246, maxDocs=91058) > >> 0.0048828125 = fieldNorm(field=content, doc=249) > >> > >> > >> On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 9:27 PM, Jack Krupansky > >> <j...@basetechnology.com>wrote: > >> > >>> Maybe you're not doing anything wrong - other than having an artificial > >>> expectation of what the true relevance of your data actually is. Many > >>> factors go into relevance scoring. You need to look at all aspects of > >>> your > >>> data. > >>> > >>> Maybe your terms don't occur in your titles the way you think they do. > >>> > >>> Maybe you need a boost of 500 or more... > >>> > >>> Lots of potential maybes. > >>> > >>> Relevancy tuning is an art and craft, hardly a science. > >>> > >>> Step one: Know your data, inside and out. > >>> > >>> Use the debugQuery=true parameter on your queries and see how much of > the > >>> score is dominated by your query terms in the non-title fields. > >>> > >>> -- Jack Krupansky > >>> > >>> -----Original Message----- From: Joe Zhang > >>> Sent: Monday, July 22, 2013 11:06 PM > >>> To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > >>> Subject: Question about field boost > >>> > >>> > >>> Dear Solr experts: > >>> > >>> Here is my query: > >>> > >>> defType=dismax&q=term1+term2&**qf=title^100 content > >>> > >>> Apparently (at least I thought) my intention is to boost the title > field. > >>> While I'm getting some non-trivial results, I'm surprised that the > >>> documents with both term1 and term2 in title (I know such docs do exist > >>> in > >>> my repository) were not returned (or maybe ranked very low). The > >>> situation > >>> does not change even when I use much larger boost factors. > >>> > >>> What am I doing wrong? > >>> > >> > >> > > >
