[Xapian-discuss] add_posting(): term position significance - line or offset?

Olly Betts olly at survex.com
Tue Nov 18 17:21:02 GMT 2008


On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 07:18:46PM +0200, Henry wrote:
> Sorry, I wasn't very clear:  I was thinking in terms of normal  
> non-phrase searches.  ie, searching for  [ +candle +stick ] in:
> 
> "...the candle stick was made of gold..."
> 
> would score higher (because of the proximity of the words, posting  
> weights aside) than:
> 
> "...the boy decided to use a stick made of wood to break the candle..."
> 
> where 'stick' and 'candle' are further apart.

Not currently...

Cheers,
    Olly



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