[Xapian-discuss] Making Title Fields Have More Weight In Xapian Search

[Benny Chan]

I feel retarded asking this, but how do I used delve to get that
information? When I use delve normally, I just get the number of documents
and the avg length of documents returned.

Benny

On 7/25/07, James Aylett <james-xapian at tartarus.org> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 12:07:40PM -0400, Ryan Mahoney wrote:
>
> > I'm also having difficulties applying weights to fields.  Any ideas why
> > changing the weight value seems to have little effect on the query
> results?
>
> The general answer to this is, somewhat unfortunately, "because it's a
> bit complex". You can use delve to check whether the weights are
> actually different. Trying to construct 'minimal' queries to
> demonstrate the weight effect sometimes doesn't work, because of other
> aspects of the ranking algorithm.
>
> J
>
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