yonik at apache
Jan 20, 2008, 5:31 PM
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Boosts on query clauses are relative to other clauses. To see
boosting really work try looking at
foo bar
vs
foo bar^10
-Yonik
On Jan 20, 2008 8:13 PM, <angelica [at] cnptia> wrote:
> I am trying to submit a query to Lucene with just one term trying to
> understand how the boost of a term influences the final document score: for
> example "computer" and "computer^5" (using query.setBoost()). Lucene
> returns the same documents with the same document score values for both
> queries. When I look at searcher.explain() the explanation is the same for
> both queries for each document.
>
> In Similarity class I saw that the score function score(q,d) has a
> multiplying factor t.getBoost() and then I thought that boosting a query
> term would modify the final document score for the query. But it does not.
> If the boost does not change the final document score what is it utility? I
> think I am missing something.
>
> Thanks, Angelica.
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