I suppose I could take the users search string and use it to query on multiple fields using the query syntax. Then weight the resulting scores for the individual fields as I wish. Something like this..?
score_1 = results of searching with 'title:"user search string"' score_2 = results of searching with 'heading: "user search string"' ... score = ((score_1 * 5) + (score_2 * 10)) / 15 - Mike ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Carlson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Lucene Users List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, June 21, 2002 1:48 PM Subject: Re: Weighted index > Lucene supporting boosting of terms in a query which will increase it > relative weighting in the search results, but this is not supported on a > index level. > > So you could get the users query and add a boost factor to those fields you > want to have higher relevancy. There has been some discussion on how to do > this at the indexing level, but nothing has started yet. > > --Peter > > > On 6/21/02 11:39 AM, "Mike Tinnes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Hey all, is there any method that allows for the weighting of indexed fields? > > I'd like to implement a web search in which keywords occuring in certain > > elements (title, heading, metatags) score higher than others (body, links, > > etc). > > > > Thanks, Mike > > > > > > > -- > 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]>
