Thanks a lot for your answers Hoss. This list is really well supported!
Antony
Chris Hostetter wrote:
: It's the index time boost, rather than query time boost. This short example
: shows the behaviour of searches for
A... index boosts! ... totally didn't occur to me that was what you
we
: It's the index time boost, rather than query time boost. This short example
: shows the behaviour of searches for
A... index boosts! ... totally didn't occur to me that was what you
were talking about. Yes: it makes sense that if you give a field an index
boost of 0.0f you won't be able t
Hi Chris,
: If I search for a document where the field boost is 0.0 then the document is
not
: found I just search that field. Is this expected???
you mean you search on: A^0and get no results even though
documents contain A, and if you search on: +A^0 B^1 you see
those d
: Thanks for the comments. Where I was trying to get to was whether a match on
a
: field with boost of 0.0 can ever cause the normalised score to result in 0 if
: there is also a match on a field with a non zero boost. I'm not sure I
: understand the scoring formula :(
well .. it gets more com
Chris Hostetter wrote:
1) you can never compare the score from a Hits object with the score from
an Explanation. Explanation has the raw score, Hits has the
psuedo-normalized score.
Thanks for the comments. Where I was trying to get to was whether a match on a
field with boost of 0.0 can eve
: I added a single document with two fields, one with the default boost and
: another with a boost of 0.0F. hits.score(0) = 0.10848885, but Explanation
shows:
:
: 0.0 = match required
1) you can never compare the score from a Hits object with the score from
an Explanation. Explanation has the
Hi,
In trying to understand scoring and boosting a bit better, I tried setting a
boost of 0.0F for a field. As it's used as a multiplier, I wanted to see how it
affects score.
I added a single document with two fields, one with the default boost and
another with a boost of 0.0F. hits.score
Hello;
This may be a trivial questions, but it has me stuck.
I'm getting some really small scores:
8.799379E-4
I need to figure out why they are so small.
I think it is problem which can be resolved using boosting.
I'm not sure how to boost given the system I have. The fields I query
against
