[jira] [Commented] (SOLR-2499) Index-time boosts for multivalue fields are consolidated

["Pat (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Pat commented on SOLR-2499:
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Has this been resolved on Solr 4+ ? I believe it is still an issue.

> Index-time boosts for multivalue fields are consolidated
> --------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: SOLR-2499
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-2499
>             Project: Solr
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>    Affects Versions: 3.1, 3.2, 4.0-ALPHA
>            Reporter: Neil Hooey
>              Labels: boost, multivalue, multivalued
>
> Currently, if you boost a value in a multivalue field during index time, the boosts are consolidated for every field, and the individual values are lost.
> So, for example, given a list of photos with a multivalue field "keywords", and a boost for a keyword assigned to a photo corresponds to the number of times that photo was downloaded after searching for that particular keyword, we have documents like this:
> {code}
> photo1: Photo of a cat by itself
> keywords: [ cat:600 feline:100 ]
> => boost total = 700
> photo2: Photo of a cat driving a truck
> keywords: [ cat:100 feline:90 animal:80 truck:1000 ]
> => boost total = 1270
> {code}
> If you search for "cat feline", photo2 will rank higher, since the boost of "cat-like" words was consolidated with the "truck" boost anomaly. Whereas photo1, which has more downloads for "cat" and "feline", ranks lower with a lower consolidated boost, even though the total boost for the relevant keywords is higher than for photo1.
> *Intuitively, the boosts should be separate, so only the boosts for the terms searched will be counted.*
> Given the current behaviour, you are forced to do one of the following:
> 1. Assemble all of the multi-values into a string, and use payloads in place of boosts.
> 2. Use dynamic fields, such as keyword_*, and boost them independently.
> Neither of these solutions are ideal, as using payloads requires writing your own BoostingTermQuery, and defining a new dynamic field per multi-value makes searching more difficult than with multivalue fields.
> There's a blog entry that describes the current behaviour:
> http://blog.kapilchhabra.com/2008/01/solr-index-time-boost-facts-2



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