Re: Value based boosting - Design Help

[Shalin Shekhar Mangar <sh...@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 5:54 PM, ayyanar
<ay...@aspiresys.com>wrote:

>
> Also, in our requirement each keyword value has a weight associated to it
> and this weight is calculated based on certain factors like (if the keyword
> exist in title then it takes a specific weight etc…). This weight should
> drive the relevancy on the search result. For example, when a user enters a
> keyword called "Biology" and clicks search, we search the keywords field in
> the index. That document that contains the searched keyword with higher
> weight should come first.
>
> It would be vey helpful for us if you can provide your thoughts/inputs on
> how to achieve this requirement in Lucene:
>
> Do we have a way to associate a different boost to different values of a
> same field?


So you are searching only on the keywords field and not the title field? You
can search on both the title and the keywords field and provide different
boosts to the title field.

Why do you want to assign weights to keywords? If all keywords which are in
title are supposed to be more relevant than all keywords only in keywords
field then assigning a boost value to the title field is enough. Is there
any other use-case?


>
> Can we maintain the list of keywords associated to each link_id in a
> separate index, so that we can associate weight to each keyword value? If
> so, how do we relate the main index and the keyword index?
>

No joins like these are not possible in Lucene/Solr. Lucene has payloads
which can be used for boosting a particular term but that functionality is
not available in Solr. Look at BoostingTermQuery in Lucene on how to use it.

http://lucene.apache.org/java/2_4_0/api/org/apache/lucene/search/payloads/BoostingTermQuery.html

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Regards,
Shalin Shekhar Mangar.