Any way to ensure diversity in search results?

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My documents have a field "category".

When a user conducts a search, I want to make sure that the results
are diverse and aren't dominated by 1 category. Say I want to make
sure that category "A" doesn't have more than 3 results in the top 10.

Is there any way to do that? Thanks.

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No built in support except for asking for more docs instead of what you are going to present, and filter things out.

On Saturday, July 2, 2011 at 12:39 AM, Andy wrote:

My documents have a field "category".

When a user conducts a search, I want to make sure that the results
are diverse and aren't dominated by 1 category. Say I want to make
sure that category "A" doesn't have more than 3 results in the top 10.

Is there any way to do that? Thanks.

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In our project we used a custom script to score docs (actually random) after
filtering. That helped us to give 'fresh' results.

On Sat, Jul 2, 2011 at 9:34 PM, Shay Banon shay.banon@elasticsearch.comwrote:

No built in support except for asking for more docs instead of what you
are going to present, and filter things out.

On Saturday, July 2, 2011 at 12:39 AM, Andy wrote:

My documents have a field "category".

When a user conducts a search, I want to make sure that the results
are diverse and aren't dominated by 1 category. Say I want to make
sure that category "A" doesn't have more than 3 results in the top 10.

Is there any way to do that? Thanks.

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http://uk.linkedin.com/in/paulloy

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Hi,

Don't think there is anything built into ES for that. We've done this
before for Solr, though. It was a fun project with pluggable
diversification of search results and such. Please get in touch if
you want us to develop something like that for you for Elastic Search

Otis

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On Jul 1, 5:39 pm, Andy selforgani...@gmail.com wrote:

My documents have a field "category".

When a user conducts a search, I want to make sure that the results
are diverse and aren't dominated by 1 category. Say I want to make
sure that category "A" doesn't have more than 3 results in the top 10.

Is there any way to do that? Thanks.