On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 9:24 PM, Walter Underwood wrote:
> Interestingly, I worked at two different web search companies with two
> different completely different search engines, and one arrived at an 8X title
> boost and the other at a 7.5X title boost. So I consider 8X a universal
> physical
avoc.
>>
>> I'd like to get your thoughts on the following:
>>
>> - Is it standard practice to avoid boosting the title field much, because of
>> the (generally) high IDF of title field terms?
>> - Are there other strategies for handling the high IDF
Thanks, Erick!
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t; I'd like to get your thoughts on the following:
>
> - Is it standard practice to avoid boosting the title field much, because of
> the (generally) high IDF of title field terms?
> - Are there other strategies for handling the high IDF of a title field?
>
> Thanks!
>
>
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