Re: Negative Boost

2004-08-05 Thread Morus Walter
Daniel Naber writes: On Wednesday 04 August 2004 13:19, Terry Steichen wrote: I can't get negative boosts to work with QueryParser. Is it possible to do so? Isn't that the same as using a boost 1, e.g. 0.1? That should be possible. no. a^-1 OR b A boost of -1 means that the score

Negative Boost

2004-08-04 Thread Terry Steichen
I can't get negative boosts to work with QueryParser. Is it possible to do so? TIA, Terry

Re: Negative Boost

2004-08-04 Thread Morus Walter
Terry Steichen writes: I can't get negative boosts to work with QueryParser. Is it possible to do so? If you change QueryParser ;-) Morus - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL

Re: Negative Boost

2004-08-04 Thread Erik Hatcher
On Aug 4, 2004, at 7:19 AM, Terry Steichen wrote: I can't get negative boosts to work with QueryParser. Is it possible to do so? Closer inspection on the parsing: Boost TOKEN : { NUMBER:(_NUM_CHAR)+ ( . (_NUM_CHAR)+ )? : DEFAULT } where #_NUM_CHAR: [0-9] So, no, negative boosts don't

Re: Negative Boost

2004-08-04 Thread Otis Gospodnetic
You can just use boost that is 1.0, no? Otis --- Terry Steichen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can't get negative boosts to work with QueryParser. Is it possible to do so? TIA, Terry - To unsubscribe, e-mail:

Re: Negative Boost

2004-08-04 Thread Daniel Naber
On Wednesday 04 August 2004 13:19, Terry Steichen wrote: I can't get negative boosts to work with QueryParser. Is it possible to do so? Isn't that the same as using a boost 1, e.g. 0.1? That should be possible. Regards Daniel

Re: Negative Boost

2004-08-04 Thread Terry Steichen
Near as I can tell, setting the boost to, say, 0.10, doesn't seem to do anything. Regards, Terry - Original Message - From: Otis Gospodnetic To: Lucene Users List Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2004 9:38 AM Subject: Re: Negative Boost You can just use boost that is 1.0

Re: Negative Boost

2004-08-04 Thread Terry Steichen
to be assured that the underlying Lucene engine will accept and support negative boosting. Is that the case? Regards, Terry - Original Message - From: Erik Hatcher To: Lucene Users List Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2004 9:12 AM Subject: Re: Negative Boost On Aug 4, 2004

Re: Negative Boost

2004-08-04 Thread markharw00d
A solution to this has been proposed before - see http://wiki.apache.org/jakarta-lucene/CommunityContributions Cheers Mark - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]