[hibernate-dev] Search: Dynamic Document boosting

[Emmanuel Bernard]

On  Apr 30, 2009, at 13:01, Sanne Grinovero wrote:

> 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.

Have you considered indexing the same property twice:
  - once unaltered and giving it a high boost
  - once with synonyms and giving it a low boost

That's how I would sove your use case personally.

>
>
> 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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