Re: IDF scoring issue

2008-12-17 Thread Grant Ingersoll
On Dec 17, 2008, at 9:26 AM, Rajiv2 wrote: Because, the search term is provided by a user, and that user would explicity have to put quotes around "marietta ga" when I beleive the search text as it is : fleming roofing inc., marietta ga -- should score higher for "marietta ga" Just

Re: IDF scoring issue

2008-12-17 Thread Matthew Hall
Well, you could also do a simple test of removing IDF from the scoring equation and seeing if the query then reacts the way you want it to. Simply write your own custom similarity that does this, and test out to see how it works. Handily enough, I've already done this, so here's some code you

Re: IDF scoring issue

2008-12-17 Thread Rajiv2
ound >> "marietta ga" which forces the query parser to make a phrase query. > > Why not? > > - > To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail:

Re: IDF scoring issue

2008-12-17 Thread Grant Ingersoll
On Dec 16, 2008, at 8:19 PM, Rajiv2 wrote: Hello, I'm using the default lucene Queryparser on the search text : fleming roofing inc., marietta ga Also, I don't want to modify the search text by putting quotes around "marietta ga" which forces the query parser to make a phrase query. Why no

Re: IDF scoring issue

2008-12-16 Thread Anshum
g ga" even though "marietta ga" is > >> closer > >> together in the search text. I'm assuming this is because of the > >> "fleming" > >> has a higher idf than marietta. What should I change in the way i'm > >&g

Re: IDF scoring issue

2008-12-16 Thread Rajiv2
arch text. I'm assuming this is because of the >> "fleming" >> has a higher idf than marietta. What should I change in the way i'm >> querying >> or indexing to make this happen? >> >> Also, I don't want to modify the search text by putting quotes

Re: IDF scoring issue

2008-12-16 Thread Erick Erickson
an marietta. What should I change in the way i'm > querying > or indexing to make this happen? > > Also, I don't want to modify the search text by putting quotes around > "marietta ga" which forces the query parser to make a phrase query. > > thanks, >

IDF scoring issue

2008-12-16 Thread Rajiv2
search text by putting quotes around "marietta ga" which forces the query parser to make a phrase query. thanks, Rajiv -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/IDF-scoring-issue-tp21045385p21045385.html Sent fro