[Evergreen-dev] Debugging Relevancy sort and keyword search

[Josh Stompro]

Michele, thank you very much for pointing that out, that does seem
promising.  I'll report back after trying the fix.
Josh


On Wed, May 25, 2022 at 3:37 PM Morgan, Michele <mmorgan at noblenet.org>
wrote:

> Hi Josh,
>
> Have you seen this Launchpad bug?
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bug/1942467
>
> I'm not sure if it's related, but the term "performing strangely" in your
> description made me think of it.
>
> Just a thought,
> Michele
>
> --
> Michele M. Morgan, Technical Support Analyst
> North of Boston Library Exchange, Danvers Massachusetts
> mmorgan at noblenet.org
>
>
>
> On Wed, May 25, 2022 at 4:21 PM Josh Stompro via Evergreen-dev <
> evergreen-dev at list.evergreen-ils.org> wrote:
>
>> Hello, does anyone know of a guide or have any tips on figuring out why a
>> relevancy ranked keyword search seems to be performing strangely?
>>
>> I'm looking at the docs for the virtual index definitions
>> https://docs.evergreen-ils.org/3.2/_virtual_index_definitions.html
>>
>> I went into the "All Searchable Fields" entry, and used the manage link
>> to see the virtual fields. And I see that I cranked up the weight for the
>> "Main Title" a few years ago.  But a keyword search for "Hotspot" is
>> showing titles with "Hotspot" in the 520 field before those that have it in
>> the title.
>>
>> Even though the record with Hotspot in the title also has "Hotspot" in
>> the 520 field.
>>
>> If there is a way to see the search details on how the relevancy ranking
>> is calculated, maybe I can spot where I'm going wrong.
>>
>> I'm wondering if I'm missing a step where I'm supposed to disable the non
>> virtual metabib fields for the keyword class as search fields, or something
>> like that?
>>
>> Thanks
>> Josh
>>
>>
>>
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