On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 4:21 PM, Max Lynch wrote:
> Well already, without doing any boosting, documents matching more of the
> > terms
> > in your query will score higher. If you really want to make this effect
> > more
> > pronounced, yes, you can boost the more important query terms higher.
>
Well already, without doing any boosting, documents matching more of the
> terms
> in your query will score higher. If you really want to make this effect
> more
> pronounced, yes, you can boost the more important query terms higher.
>
> -jake
>
But there isn't a way to determine exactly what bo
On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 4:02 PM, Max Lynch wrote:
> > > Now, I would like to know exactly what term was found. For example, if
> a
> > > result comes back from the query above, how do I know whether John
> Smith
> > > was
> > > found, or both John Smith and his company, or just John Smith
> > Ma
> > Now, I would like to know exactly what term was found. For example, if a
> > result comes back from the query above, how do I know whether John Smith
> > was
> > found, or both John Smith and his company, or just John Smith
> Manufacturing
> > was found?
>
>
> In general, this is actually very
On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 3:35 PM, Max Lynch wrote:
> > query: "San Francisco" "California" +("John Smith" "John Smith
> > Manufacturing")
> >
> > Here the San Fran and CA clauses are optional, and the ("John Smith" OR
> > "John Smith Manufacturing") is required.
> >
>
> Thanks Jake, that works nic
> query: "San Francisco" "California" +("John Smith" "John Smith
> Manufacturing")
>
> Here the San Fran and CA clauses are optional, and the ("John Smith" OR
> "John Smith Manufacturing") is required.
>
Thanks Jake, that works nicely.
Now, I would like to know exactly what term was found. For e
Did I do that wrong? I always mess up the AND/OR human-readable form
of this - it's clearer when you use +/- unary operators instead:
query: "San Francisco" "California" +("John Smith" "John Smith
Manufacturing")
Here the San Fran and CA clauses are optional, and the ("John Smith" OR
"John Smith
> You want a query like
>
> ("San Francisco" OR "California") AND ("John Smith" OR "John Smith
> Manufacturing")
>
Won't his require San Francisco or California to be present? I do not
require them to be, I only require "John Smith" OR "John Smith
Manufacturing", but I want to get a bigger scor
Hi Max,
You want a query like
("San Francisco" OR "California") AND ("John Smith" OR "John Smith
Manufacturing")
essentially? You can give Lucene exactly this query and it will require
that
either "John Smith" or "John Smith Manufacturing" be present, but will score
results which have these
Hi,
I am trying to move from a system where I counted the frequency of terms by
hand in a highlighter to determine if a result was useful to me. In an
earlier post on this list someone suggested I could boost the terms that are
useful to me and only accept hits above a certain threshold. However,
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