I don't think index time boosts are the way to go. From a message on this list that I printed out (from Otis? Yonik? Chris? someone who knows waaaay more about this topic than I do, probably Chris given the lack of capitalization <G>)....
'...index time field boosts are a way to express things like "this documents title is worth twice as much as the title of most documents" query time boosts are a way to express "i care about matches on this clause of my query twice as much as i do about matches to other clauses of my query"...' So I don't think that index time boosts express what Ofer wants... Erick On 4/3/07, Daniel Rosher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi Ofer, I think your best option is to boost the field for your category field during index time with Field.setBoost(floatBoost) You will have to reindex your corpus however. Regards, Dan On 4/2/07, Ofer Nave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'd like to be able to boost documents at search-time, and I'm not sure > how to do it. > > Example: > > I'm building a search engine for products (comparison shopping). Many > queries tend to indicate a category (i.e., 'digital cameras') as opposed > to a product (i.e., 'canon powershot'). I have the name of the category > the product is in indexed in a separate field. My intention was to > query both the title field and the category field, and when the category > field relevancy is extremely high, boost the documents in that category. > > Is there a way to do this? Or an alternative approach to the problem? > > -ofer > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
