Re: Index time Document Boosting and Query Time Sorts

2008-09-24 Thread Karl Wettin
24 sep 2008 kl. 12.40 skrev Grant Ingersoll: One side note based on your example, below: Index time boosting does not have much granularity (only 255 values), in other words, there is a loss of precision. Thus, you want to make sure your boosts are different enough such that you can dist

Re: Index time Document Boosting and Query Time Sorts

2008-09-24 Thread Grant Ingersoll
On Sep 24, 2008, at 5:04 AM, Dino Korah wrote: Hi all, Could you please help me understand hos that works. If I boost documents at index time based on some kind of criteria and if I am to sort on a different criteria at query time, how will the result get affected by the boosting. So i

Re: IndexSearcher.search

2008-09-24 Thread Dino Korah
Thanks Chris, It kinda makes sense to have control on what we do with the API, but for first time users, it will be vital to have classes that will help them smoothen their learning curve. By the looks of it, even advanced users use Hits and are porting to TopDocs only because of the deprecation.

Index time Document Boosting and Query Time Sorts

2008-09-24 Thread Dino Korah
Hi all, Could you please help me understand hos that works. If I boost documents at index time based on some kind of criteria and if I am to sort on a different criteria at query time, how will the result get affected by the boosting. So if I am to index a bunch of text files in a folder struct