[hibernate-dev] Search: Dynamic Document boosting

[Sanne Grinovero]

Basically I need a function to convert a user-proposed term to a
series of proposals
of "similar" terms but giving a higher rank to the terms I'd prefer
him to choose as they
are the correct names used in my domain.
You can think of it as a spellchecker/dictionary (using synonyms
toos), but giving priority to
a selected form of each term, known as the "root", or the standard
form in the domain.

This is the simple explanation which I believe is useful in all indexing modes;
actually I'm also going to use it for the 2 reasons you are
listing, and it's not a problem for me as I rebuild the index
regularly and prefer for
several reasons to pre-compute the boosts needed for "categories in
marketing mood"
and "fade by age" effects.


2009/4/30 Emmanuel Bernard <emmanuel at hibernate.org>:
> What's your use case?
> I am not against that feature but I don't think it covers all use cases:
>  - I want a higher boost for more recent documents
>  - I change priority in my categories depending on the marketing mood
>
> Said otherwise, can have a true dynamic boost defined at query time, not at
> indexing time.
> I think Solr has something named FunctionQuery that can do that.
>
> On  Apr 29, 2009, at 16:47, Sanne Grinovero wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>> I'm currently needing to be able to define a per-entity INSTANCE
>> different Boost, not just the type.
>>
>> Currently I could obtain this functionality by using a custom
>> classbridge, but the entity is quite complex and building my own
>> classbridge I will have to map all fields myself loosing the
>> flexibility of annotations for the current type and
>> all @IndexedEmbedded.
>>
>> I'd like to add a new parameter to @Boost; currently it has a float
>> mandatory value,
>> I'd like to add a new parameter:
>>
>> Class<BoostScorer> impl();
>>
>> where BoostScorer is an interface having something like
>>
>> public float score(Object value);
>>
>> The annotation would default to an implementation returning constant 1.0f.
>>
>> This would have an interaction with the existing "value" parameter:
>> IMHO they should
>> multiply each other, so I'd change the existing value to also have a
>> default of 1.0f
>> and people might want to change one or both values.
>>
>> Setting both values might be useful to reuse the same impl on
>> different types/fields
>> and still be able to statically scale the result from the
>> score(Object) function, without having to
>> rewrite a new implementation.
>>
>> What do you think?
>>
>> Sanne
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