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Boost the other three fields at search time. Boosting during
index time expresses "this document's title is worth more than
other doucments' titles". Boosting during search time expresses
"I care about matches on this clause more than I do on other
clauses".

Will it help? How should I know? It's *your* application and
*you* are the one who is dissatisfied with the current scoring <G>.

All I can say is try it and find out. You might consider using Luke
to try various boosts without having to mess with too much code.

Erick

On 7/31/07, Askar Zaidi <askar.zaidi@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Boosting during Indexing or boosting during search ?
>
> I have 4 fields:
>
> {tags},{title},{summary},{contents}
>
> Typically a phrase occurs too many times in contents as compared to the
> other fields. If I get the score of contents field , I can pass it through
> an adjuster function which will bring the score down. Something like:
>
> public static double adjuster(double count){
>
>                 double newCount;
>                 newCount = 1/Math.exp(count);
>                 System.out.println(newCount);
>                 return newCount;
>
>                 }
>
> Do you mean I could boost the values of the other 3 fields ? Will that
> help
> ? Would there be a way to bring down the score of the contents field ?
>
> thanks,
> AZ
>
>
> On 7/31/07, Erick Erickson <erickerickson@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Wouldn't boosting handle this for you?
> >
> > On 7/31/07, Askar Zaidi <askar.zaidi@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > To be more specific:
> > >
> > > I want to retrieve the scores of individual fields inside a document
> so
> > > that
> > > I can manipulate the score of one field. This is the requirement of my
> > > application. After the manipulation I can add these scores and then
> show
> > > the
> > > total.
> > >
> > > thanks,
> > >
> > > AZ
> > >
> > > On 7/31/07, Askar Zaidi <askar.zaidi@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Hey guys,
> > > >
> > > > I was wondering if there is a way to retrieve score of a field in a
> > > > document ?
> > > >
> > > > If my document looks like this:
> > > >
> > > > {itemID},{field 1},{field 2}
> > > >
> > > > I'd like to get score of individual fields 1 and 2 rather than the
> > score
> > > > of the entire document.
> > > >
> > > > Is it possible ?
> > > >
> > > > thanks,
> > > > AZ
> > > >
> > >
> >
>

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