Re: Lopsided scores for each term in BooleanQuery

2006-09-18 Thread Andy Liu
In our application we have multiple fields that are searched. So fast car becomes: +(field1:fast field2:fast field3:fast) +(field1:car field2:car field3:car) I understand that the default sqrt implementation of tf() would help the "lopsided score" phenomenon with searches within the same field.

Re: Lopsided scores for each term in BooleanQuery

2006-09-18 Thread Paul Elschot
On Monday 18 September 2006 23:08, Andy Liu wrote: > For multi-word queries, I would like to reward documents that contain a more > even distribution of each word and penalize documents that have a skewed > distribution. For example, if my search query is: > > +content:fast +content:car > > I wo

Lopsided scores for each term in BooleanQuery

2006-09-18 Thread Andy Liu
For multi-word queries, I would like to reward documents that contain a more even distribution of each word and penalize documents that have a skewed distribution. For example, if my search query is: +content:fast +content:car I would prefer a document that contains each word an equal number of