NIAID-Data-Ecosystem / nde-discovery-api

NIAID Data Ecosystem Discovery API, based on BioThings SDK
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Add query-based boosting to increase score of generic queries based on particular fields #2

Open flaneuse opened 2 years ago

flaneuse commented 2 years ago

Will require a modification on the custom QueryBuilder, as shown in this example.

Will need to discuss which properties to boost and how much; name and description seem like good candidates, perhaps author. @EmilyHaag : do you have any sense of what sorts of search terms people are likely to look for?

EmilyHaag commented 2 years ago

During user interviews, researchers said they perform very specific searches (e.g. "who else did a CD7/bl6 Mouse LCMV Clone 13 experiment"). However, an analysis of PubMed user behavior found that most PubMed users query by author, disease, gene/protein (respectively; see below). pubmed