Re: Sort by the number of matching fields

2010-01-21 Thread Philippe
Hi Ian, you are probably right that doc2 will be ranked higher as it contains both id-fields. However, I am sure that this is not always the case in the default TF/IDF-ranking scheme. As you mentioned in the second part, I could add a new field holding the number of matching fields. The Prob

Re: Sort by the number of matching fields

2010-01-21 Thread Ian Lea
I'm not sure I understand what you are asking, but if you search for id:5 id:6 then I think doc2 will be ranked higher, because it contains both fields. Or are you saying you want to rank based on the number of id fields in the document i.e. doc2 better than doc1 because 3 better than 5? If that