Boosting for a number near X

Hi,

I have documents (accommodations) stored with a numeric attribute - "number
of beds"

I'd like to be able to boost by a certain amount if that number is close to
a search query.

e.g. prefer documents with a number of beds close to what is being searched
for.

This will be added to the rest of the search criteria - is there a way to
do this? I can filter by a number within a range, but would like the
results returned to take some ordering from the closeness of the number
searched for.

Thanks
Guy

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Hi Guy,

sounds like you are looking for the function score query:

And there maybe especially for the decay functions:

"Decay functions score a document with a function that decays depending
on the distance of a numeric field value of the document from a user
given origin. This is similar to a range query, but with smooth edges
instead of boxes."

Have a look at all the beautiful example plots Britta created.. :slight_smile:

Best regards,
Hannes

On 15.04.2014 15:18, Guy Bowden wrote:

Hi,

I have documents (accommodations) stored with a numeric attribute - "number
of beds"

I'd like to be able to boost by a certain amount if that number is close to
a search query.

e.g. prefer documents with a number of beds close to what is being searched
for.

This will be added to the rest of the search criteria - is there a way to
do this? I can filter by a number within a range, but would like the
results returned to take some ordering from the closeness of the number
searched for.

Thanks
Guy

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