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Mastering Apache Solr 7.x

By : Sandeep Nair, Chintan Mehta, Dharmesh Vasoya
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Mastering Apache Solr 7.x

By: Sandeep Nair, Chintan Mehta, Dharmesh Vasoya

Overview of this book

Apache Solr is the only standalone enterprise search server with a REST-like application interface. providing highly scalable, distributed search and index replication for many of the world's largest internet sites. To begin with, you would be introduced to how you perform full text search, multiple filter search, perform dynamic clustering and so on helping you to brush up the basics of Apache Solr. You will also explore the new features and advanced options released in Apache Solr 7.x which will get you numerous performance aspects and making data investigation simpler, easier and powerful. You will learn to build complex queries, extensive filters and how are they compiled in your system to bring relevance in your search tools. You will learn to carry out Solr scoring, elements affecting the document score and how you can optimize or tune the score for the application at hand. You will learn to extract features of documents, writing complex queries in re-ranking the documents. You will also learn advanced options helping you to know what content is indexed and how the extracted content is indexed. Throughout the book, you would go through complex problems with solutions along with varied approaches to tackle your business needs. By the end of this book, you will gain advanced proficiency to build out-of-box smart search solutions for your enterprise demands.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Title Page
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Search relevance


Relevance is a measurement of the user's satisfaction with the response to their search query. It completely depends on the context of the search. Sometimes, the same document can be searched by different classes of people for different context. For example, the search query higher tax payer in India can be searched by:

  • An income tax department in the context of their duty
  • Chartered accountants in the context of their professional interest
  • Students in the context of gaining knowledge

The comprehensiveness of any response depends on the context of the search. Sometimes, the context is high, such as searching for legal information; sometimes, it is low, when someone is searching for context such as specific dance steps. So, during Solr configuration, we need to take care of this too.

There are two terms that play an important role in relevance:

  • Precision: Precision is the percentage of documents in the returned results that are relevant.
  • Recall: Recall is the percentage of relevant...