Have you tried using the explain method on a Searcher and examining the results?
Best Erick On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 3:51 PM, Clemens Wyss <clemens...@mysign.ch> wrote: > I have a minimal unit test in which I add three documents to an index. The > documents have two fields "year" and "descritpion". > doc1(year = "2007", desc = "text with 2007 and 2009") > doc2(year = "2009", desc = "text with 2007 and 2009") > doc3(year = "2008", desc = "text with 2007 and 2009") > > To search I use a BooleanQuery with a TermQuery (very high boosted), a > PrefixQuery (high boosted) and a WildcardQuery (normal boost). > > when I search for "2007" I get > doc1 > doc2 > doc3 > > when I search for "2009" I get > doc2 > doc1 > doc3 > > Looks like the "exact match" on year is rated higher, which is good. Now when > I set the boost factor of year to 2f I get the same results. But when I set > the boost factor of year to 10f the order is inversed, i.e. the matching on > desc is rated higher. > > How come? > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
