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Site search: provide feedback on how results are sorted #286

Open danicahelb opened 2 years ago

danicahelb commented 2 years ago

Discussed in 5/23/2022 EDA UX meeting

Search term = “weight” was an exact hit for a variable label in 28 studies, but this was ranked 2nd in terms of what was returned by SOLR. Why?

SOLR returns results sorted by score, which is given by the number of times the search term matches divided by the total number of words searched in the document. This means that --unexpectedly-- the more studies match the search term, the more words there will be in the document, and the lower the score

@steve-fischer-200 will try to optimize the ranking SOLR results by giving exact matches and/or the total number of studies returned more weight

dmfalke commented 2 years ago

@steve-fischer-200 do you know which repo this should be moved to?

danicahelb commented 2 years ago

@iodice can say which fields in the model are most important, which can boost the rankings