FYI, I just added document and field boosting to Lucene. It should be in tonight's nightly build.
This lets one, e.g., implement Google-like ranking, where a factor in a document's score is determined independently from the text of the document. Longer term, I'd still like to open up document scoring, so that a user can alter any part of the formula without altering Lucene's core code. Enjoy! Doug -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: cvs commit: jakarta-lucene/src/test/org/apache/lucene/search TestDocBoost.java Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 12:14:22 -0700 From: Doug Cutting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: "Lucene Developers List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Lucene Developers List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Log: > msg.txt Oops. That log entry was supposed to read: Added support for boosting the score of documents and fields via the new methods Document.setBoost(float) and Field.setBoost(float). Note: This changes the encoding of an indexed value. Indexes should be re-created from scratch in order for search scores to be correct. With the new code and an old index, searches will yield very large scores for shorter fields, and very small scores for longer fields. Once the index is re-created, scores will be as before. Doug -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
