Bifalgorithm post · Sahih el Boykhari · Select Collections
Term Boosting
Term Boosting (Sahih el Boykhari · Select Collections) — "Lucene provides the relevance level of matching documents based on the terms found. To boost a term u…
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- Lucene boosting controls the relevance of matching documents.
- Lucene determines relevance from the terms found in matching documents.
- Boosting increases the weight of selected terms or phrases to control document relevance.
- A term is boosted by placing the caret symbol (^) and a boost factor after it.
- The boost factor is a number that specifies the strength of the boost.
- A higher boost factor makes the term more relevant.
- In the query "pledge hijrah," both terms are searched with equal weighting.
- In "pledge^4 hijrah," pledge receives higher weight than hijrah.
- A phrase can also be boosted, as in "pledge of allegiance"^5.
