can you tell me how we use this method (as in it is just a simple call on doc.setBoost(float) or some other paramters,etc need to be set)? and from which version is this available-bcoz i neither found it in the javadocs, nor in the src-code? -rishabh
-- On Thu, 6 Feb 2003 08:38:35 Tatu Saloranta wrote: >On Wednesday 05 February 2003 23:54, Rishabh Bajpai wrote: >... >> document changes if we give a boost factor. but i am not clear as to why we >> want the document score to change like this; rather each of the field's > >A guess: this was an something easy to implement and still useful for some >users (since in many cases some documents can be considered "better", based >on some feedback or source or type). It doesn't really replace more advanced >methods of figuring out relevance. So what you are requesting could well >co-exist with doc boost feature. > >> score within the document should vary? Suppose i am searching for "i am >> rishabh"....i want to boost "rishabh" when i am tokenizing this phrase and >> indexing it...this would essentially mean that "rishabh" shold have a >> greater relevancy than "i" and "am" in each of the documents to which these >> fields are added? > >I don't know if there's any feature that would do exactly that, but if you can >separate just one or two classes of "more important" words (keywords), you >could create separate index(es) for those, and boost the search to keyword >index higher than search for other plain text content. > >-+ Tatu +- > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > _____________________________________________________________ Get 25MB, POP3, Spam Filtering with LYCOS MAIL PLUS for $19.95/year. http://login.mail.lycos.com/brandPage.shtml?pageId=plus&ref=lmtplus --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
