Here is the logical structure of the document I'm working with:
The 'Document' has two fields:
'includes' - List of terms that provide positive boost
'excludes' - List of terms that provide negative boost
Here is a usage scenario:
DocumentA
includes: red green blue
excludes: frogs birds snails
DocumentB
includes: red green blue
excludes: <empty>
Here is the desired effect for a couple query strings:
Query: red
Result: both documents would be returned with equal score
Query: red frogs
Result: only DocumentB would be returned because DocumentA excludes frogs
My question is: can Lucene do this with a single query? One option is to
do separate queries searching first the 'includes' and then on the
'excludes' field, then removing documents from the 'includes' Hits that
exist in the 'excludes' Hits. This solution to works, but is somewhat
cumbersome and inefficient.
I've tried calling excludesField.setBoost((float)-1) as well as passing
small decimals in the setBoost method, but that still adds a smaller value
to the score instead of subtracting from it.
Has anyone solved this problem in better/different ways?
Thanks!
---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
