Re: "Field weights"

2007-12-16 Thread Karl Wettin
Thanks for the replies. I miserably failed to explain my problem. I focused too much on the content similarity between the fields and completely missed out on things such as that car brands and tire brands are not propotionally large compared to the data in my domain. I have tens of thousan

Re: "Field weights"

2007-12-14 Thread Shai Erera
What about boosting documents of the Brand type? You can statically boost those documents with a log() function or something similar ... On Dec 14, 2007 8:24 PM, Doron Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It seems that documents having less fields satisfying > the query worth more than those satisf

Re: "Field weights"

2007-12-14 Thread Doron Cohen
It seems that documents having less fields satisfying the query worth more than those satisfying more fields of the query, because the first ones are more "to the point". At least it seems like it in the example. If this makes sense I would try to compose a top level boolean query out of the one-

Re: "Field weights"

2007-12-14 Thread Paul Elschot
Karl, This might work for you: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-293 Regards, Paul Elschot On Friday 14 December 2007 18:06:01 Karl Wettin wrote: > I have an index that contains three sorts of documents: > > Car brand > Tire brand > Tire pressure > > (Please bear with me, the real i

"Field weights"

2007-12-14 Thread Karl Wettin
I have an index that contains three sorts of documents: Car brand Tire brand Tire pressure (Please bear with me, the real index has nothing to do with cars. I just try to explain the problem in an alternative domain to avoid NDA conflicts.) There is a heirarchial composite relationship bet