You could change the boost of the field artist to be bigger than the field
alias.
field.setBoost(artistBoost);
2010/1/12 Paul Taylor <paul_t...@fastmail.fm>
> Been doing some analysis with Luke (BTW doesnt work with StandardAnalyzer
> since Version field introduced) and discovered a problem with field lenghth
> boosting for me.
>
> I have a document that represents a recording artist (i.e Madonna, The
> Beatles ectera) it contains an artist and an alias field, the alias field
> contains other names that the artist is maybe known as, and so there can be
> multiple aliases for an artist.
>
> PseudoCode:
> (
> doc.addField(ArtistIndexField.ARTIST, rs.getString("name"));
> for (String alias : aliases.get(artistId)) {
> doc.addField(ArtistIndexField.ALIAS, alias);
> }
> )
>
> Im finding that when I search by for the artist by the alias field if the
> value matches an alias in two different documents the document with the
> least number of aliases get the best score because the boost of the alias is
> split between the aliases on the other doc, if I ANALYSED_NO_NORMS then both
> documents return the same score.
>
> The trouble is I don't want to disable norms because I want a match on a
> single field containing less terms to score better than one with more
> scores.
>
> Full example:
>
>
> http://musicbrainz.org/search/textsearch.html?query=minihamuzu&type=artist&limit=25&adv=on&handlearguments=1
> return two results , the second result only has score of 8 because it more
> aliases than the first result, even the alias it matched on was an exact
> single term match.
> http://musicbrainz.org/show/artist/aliases.html?artistid=174327
>
> but if I remove norms then the following query (which is currently working)
>
>
> http://musicbrainz.org/search/textsearch.html?query=%22the+beatles%22&type=artist&limit=25&adv=on&handlearguments=1
>
> would stop working, in that searching for 'The beatles' would no longer
> score rate artist 'The Beatles' better than 'The Beatles revival Band'
>
> So isn't there any way to recognise that repeated calls to addField() is
> not creating a single field with many terms,but many fields with few terms.
>
> thanks Paul
>
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