> Using MX 6.1...I have a question regarding scoring in verity. First a > little background: > > According to Mac docs, STEM and MANY are modifiers that are the > default behavior of the CFSEARCH command (if you do not specify any > other modifiers). This is what allows us to get a 'score' result > giving us a 'relevancy' ranking of the results. The Mac docs state > that STEM causes similarly stemmed words to come up in the results (e. > g. if you search on 'instructs', your results will also include words > like 'instructional', instruction', etc.). > > Currently, the score is based on the number of occurrences of the > search criteria in a document. The more times it occurs in a document, > the higher the score. However, since we are using a STEM modifier, > it's not just the exact criteria that is used to determine the score, > it's anything with the same STEM. So, there exists the possibility, > if not probability, that a document with 4 occurrences of the word > 'instructional' would have a higher score than a document with 2 > occurrences of the word 'instructs'. > > This is part of my problem. Our client wants the benefits of STEM > (including multiple similar terms in the search results) but wants > documents with the 'actual' criteria scored HIGHER than documents just > having STEMS of the criteria. > > Is this possible, and if so, how would you do it? My thinking is that > the only thing we could do is take the results from CFSEARCH and > manipulate them manually to change the scores, but that would be a > huge hit on processing. I really need to know if you can do this > somehow with modifiers in Verity that we can pass through the CFSEARCH > interface. > > Thanks! > Dave
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