That was my problem... I was ommiting norms, so the boost I gave at the document at index time was not taking effect. Since I stop omitting them results have changed completely. Thanks!
Michael McCandless-2 wrote: > > Negative boosts are accepted, though rather "unusual". Also note that > Lucene by default filters out any hits with scores <= 0.0. > > Normally you'd set boost to something > 0.0 (0.1 should work). > > What unexpected effect are you seeing? > > If you omit norms, then indeed your per-doc boost (and per-field > boost, if used) are discarded (have no effect). > > Mike > > On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 4:01 PM, Marc Sturlese <marc.sturl...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> Hey there, >> Does de function doc.setBoost(x.y) accept negative values or values minor >> than 1?? I mean... it compile and doesn't give errors but the behabiour >> is >> not exactly what I was expecting. >> In my use case I have the field title... I want to give very very low >> relevance to the documents witch title has less that 40 characters. I >> have >> tried setting boost to negatives values or to 0.1 >> Wich is the best way to do that? >> Is there any range of values for setting boost? >> >> And another thing that confuses me... if I omit norms is the score >> function... how does it affect to the boosting I am setting? does it >> loose >> the effect? >> >> Thanks in advance! >> -- >> View this message in context: >> http://www.nabble.com/boost-and-score-doubt-tp22916108p22916108.html >> Sent from the Lucene - Java Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org >> >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org > > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/boost-and-score-doubt-tp22916108p22925764.html Sent from the Lucene - Java Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org
