score: introduce query.Boost to scale score#728
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Couldn't help but do a little hacking this morning. It hasn't been tested yet, but would appreciate feedback on it / the approach/idea. |
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Alright after some experimental testing a boost of 20 works quite well! I updated our e2e ranking tests:
Screenshots below on the same corpus as our e2e ranking tests go run ./cmd/zoekt-webserver -listen 127.0.0.1:6070 -print -index /tmp/zoekt-test-ranking-shards-keegan |
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This commit introduces a new primitive Boost to our query language. It allows boosting (or dampening) the contribution to the score a query atoms will match contribute. To achieve this we introduce boostMatchTree which records this weight. We then adjust the visitMatches to take an initial score weight (1.0), and then each time we recurse through a boostMatchTree the score weight is multiplied by the boost weight. Additionally candidateMatch now has a new field, scoreWeight, which records the weight at time of candidate collection. Without boosting in the query this value will always be 1. Finally when scoring a candidateMatch we take the final score for it and multiply it by scoreWeight. Note: we do not expose a way to set this in the query language, only the query API. Test Plan: Manual testing against webserver via the new phrase-boost URL param. Additionally updated ranking tests to use the phrase booster.
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This commit introduces a new primitive Boost to our query language. It allows boosting (or dampening) the contribution to the score a query atoms will match contribute.
To achieve this we introduce boostMatchTree which records this weight. We then adjust the visitMatches to take an initial score weight (1.0), and then each time we recurse through a boostMatchTree the score weight is multiplied by the boost weight. Additionally candidateMatch now has a new field, scoreWeight, which records the weight at time of candidate collection. Without boosting in the query this value will always be 1.
Finally when scoring a candidateMatch we take the final score for it and multiply it by scoreWeight.
Note: we do not expose a way to set this in the query language, only the query API.
Test Plan: Manual testing against webserver via the new phrase-boost URL param. Additionally updated ranking tests to use the phrase booster.