Re: need scoring help

2009-03-21 Thread Grant Ingersoll
Hi, As a starter, you might find http://www.lucidimagination.com/Community/Hear-from-the-Experts/Articles/Debugging-Relevance-Issues-Search useful. The key thing to do first is use Lucene's built in explain method to see why any particular document scores the way it does, then work from t

Random sorting results

2009-03-21 Thread rawmans...@gmail.com
Hi, In the search application I'm working on I would like to prevent the user from getting always the same search results for a certain query, but without affecting results quality too much. In order to do so I'm processing the hits in smaller chunks and doing some random shuffle inside the

Index Partitioning

2009-03-21 Thread Shashi Kant
Is there an "elegant" approach to partitioning a large Lucene index (~1TB) into smaller sub-indexes other than the obvious method of re-indexing into partitions? Any ideas? Thanks, Shashi

Re: Random sorting results

2009-03-21 Thread Chris Lu
Maybe you can adjust your ranking algorithm. For example, rank the most recent results higher? -- Chris Lu - Instant Scalable Full-Text Search On Any Database/Application site: http://www.dbsight.net demo: http://search.dbsight.com Lucene Database Search in 3 minutes: ht