If you were to apply a boost of less than 1, so something like 0.1, that would reduce the score of the docs you want to de-boost.
On Wed, 24 Feb 2016, 15:17 Emir Arnautovic <emir.arnauto...@sematext.com> wrote: > Hi Shamik, > Is boosting others acceptable option to you, e.g. > ContentGroup:"NonDeveloper"^100. > Which query parser do you use? > > Regards, > Emir > > -- > Monitoring * Alerting * Anomaly Detection * Centralized Log Management > Solr & Elasticsearch Support * http://sematext.com/ > > > > On 23.02.2016 23:42, Shamik Bandopadhyay wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm looking into the possibility of de-boosting a set of documents > during > > query time. In my application, when I search for e.g. "preferences", I > want > > to de-boost content tagged with ContentGroup:"Developer" or in other > words, > > push those content back in the order. Here's the catch. I've the > following > > weights. > > > > text^1.5 title^4 IndexTerm^2 > > > > As you can see, Title has a higher weight. > > > > Now, a bunch of content tagged with ContentGroup:"Developer" consists of > a > > title like "Preferences.material" or "Preferences Property" or > > "Preferences.graphics". The boost on title pushes these documents at the > > top. > > > > What I'm looking is to see if there's a way deboost all documents that > are > > tagged with ContentGroup:"Developer" irrespective of the term occurrence > is > > text or title. > > > > Any pointers will be appreciated. > > > > Thanks, > > Shamik > > > -- Regards, Binoy Dalal
