Re: boosting different parts of the same field

2007-05-31 Thread Grant Ingersoll
If you are up for _BLEEDING EDGE_ stuff, have a look at the Payload addition to the trunk. With this, you can set payloads on individual terms (i.e. the title tokens) and then use the BoostingTermQuery when searching to factor in the payload in the scoring. This is very much "buyer beware"

Re: boosting different parts of the same field

2007-05-31 Thread Les Fletcher
I recently posted a similar question to this list. Currently I am just adding the boosted field to the default search field multiple times Look for a thread on this list with a subject of "Document Boost." There were a few interesting ideas posted about how to go about this. Les Ken Krugle

Re: boosting different parts of the same field

2007-05-31 Thread Ken Krugler
This is issue with a field (let's call it "fulltext") containing all other fields' values (to perform "search in all" query). Still, while performing "search in all" I would like to boost some parts of this "fulltext" field. One way I do this in Solr (where you can easily specify this type of c

Re: boosting different parts of the same field

2007-05-31 Thread Mark Miller
I think your looking at a limitation of using the "fulltext" approach. You are also loosing the boosting you would get for matching on shorter fields. Sometimes you just have to give in and query across all fields or take the compromise..Lucene does not have a concept of "meta-fields" within fi

Re: boosting different parts of the same field

2007-05-31 Thread wojtek hury
This is issue with a field (let's call it "fulltext") containing all other fields' values (to perform "search in all" query). Still, while performing "search in all" I would like to boost some parts of this "fulltext" field. wojtek On 5/31/07, Donna L Gresh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Is there

Re: boosting different parts of the same field

2007-05-31 Thread Donna L Gresh
>Is there a way of boosting only fragment of the field? Let's say that I have >a title and short description of something which I want to index into >"myfield" field - is there a way of boosting title as more important for >scoring than description? I thought that maybe something like below would

boosting different parts of the same field

2007-05-31 Thread wojtek hury
Is there a way of boosting only fragment of the field? Let's say that I have a title and short description of something which I want to index into "myfield" field - is there a way of boosting title as more important for scoring than description? I thought that maybe something like below would work