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

[Benny Chan]

Thanks so much James! Your response helped a lot.

Benny

On 7/26/07, James Aylett <james-xapian at tartarus.org> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 02:22:43PM -0400, Benny Chan wrote:
>
> > Yea I tried delve --help but i'm pretty new to Xapian and that help
> > isn't very comprehensive. For instance, what are "term lists"
> > "posting lists" "position lists" ?
>
> You should read the introduction to Xapian to get an overview of
> these. However in this case you want to grab the term list for a given
> document, and use the -v switch to get the wdf (within document
> frequency - sum of all the weights with which this term was added as a
> posting to that document):
>
> $ delve -v -r 1 db
>
> for document id #1. The response will be a list of <term> <wdf>
> <termfreq>; you care about the wdf for each term.
>
> J
>
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