Doug , you are amazing!! ciao. -- On Mon, 29 Jul 2002 12:31:49 Doug Cutting wrote: >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]> > >
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