Boosting based on filter query

["Van Tassell, Kristian" <kr...@siemens.com>]

I want to be able to boost results where the filetype is a pdf:

Here is some pseudo code so I don't misrepresent/misinterpret via a URL:

search("foobar")
foreach result (where filetype==pdf) {
  boost^10
}

Is there a way to do this?

Thanks in advance!

RE: Boosting based on filter query

["Van Tassell, Kristian" <kr...@siemens.com>]

Thank you!

-----Original Message-----
From: Erik Hatcher [mailto:erik.hatcher@gmail.com] 
Sent: Monday, March 11, 2013 8:50 AM
To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org
Subject: Re: Boosting based on filter query

Definitely can do this, but how depends on the query parser you're using.   With dismax/edismax you can use bq=filetype:pdf^10 (where "filetype:pdf" is a valid Lucene query parser expression for your documents).

	Erik

On Mar 11, 2013, at 09:31 , Van Tassell, Kristian wrote:

> I want to be able to boost results where the filetype is a pdf:
> 
> Here is some pseudo code so I don't misrepresent/misinterpret via a URL:
> 
> search("foobar")
> foreach result (where filetype==pdf) {
>  boost^10
> }
> 
> Is there a way to do this?
> 
> Thanks in advance!
> 

Re: Boosting based on filter query

[Erik Hatcher <er...@gmail.com>]

Definitely can do this, but how depends on the query parser you're using.   With dismax/edismax you can use bq=filetype:pdf^10 (where "filetype:pdf" is a valid Lucene query parser expression for your documents).

	Erik

On Mar 11, 2013, at 09:31 , Van Tassell, Kristian wrote:

> I want to be able to boost results where the filetype is a pdf:
> 
> Here is some pseudo code so I don't misrepresent/misinterpret via a URL:
> 
> search("foobar")
> foreach result (where filetype==pdf) {
>  boost^10
> }
> 
> Is there a way to do this?
> 
> Thanks in advance!
>