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<p>The <a class="el" href="class_lucene_1_1_net_1_1_search_1_1_boosting_query.html" title="The BoostingQuery class can be used to effectively demote results that match a given query...">BoostingQuery</a> class can be used to effectively demote results that match a given query. Unlike the "NOT" clause, this still selects documents that contain undesirable terms, but reduces their overall score:
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<tr class="memitem:ac1ca86c30835f69c14785d98261be101 inherit pub_static_methods_class_lucene_1_1_net_1_1_search_1_1_query"><td class="memItemLeft" align="right" valign="top">static <a class="el" href="class_lucene_1_1_net_1_1_search_1_1_query.html">Query</a>&#160;</td><td class="memItemRight" valign="bottom"><a class="el" href="class_lucene_1_1_net_1_1_search_1_1_query.html#ac1ca86c30835f69c14785d98261be101">MergeBooleanQueries</a> (params <a class="el" href="class_lucene_1_1_net_1_1_search_1_1_boolean_query.html">BooleanQuery</a>[] queries)</td></tr>
<tr class="memdesc:ac1ca86c30835f69c14785d98261be101 inherit pub_static_methods_class_lucene_1_1_net_1_1_search_1_1_query"><td class="mdescLeft">&#160;</td><td class="mdescRight">Expert: merges the clauses of a set of <a class="el" href="class_lucene_1_1_net_1_1_search_1_1_boolean_query.html" title="A Query that matches documents matching boolean combinations of other queries, e.g. TermQuerys, PhraseQuerys or other BooleanQuerys. ">BooleanQuery</a>'s into a single <a class="el" href="class_lucene_1_1_net_1_1_search_1_1_boolean_query.html" title="A Query that matches documents matching boolean combinations of other queries, e.g. TermQuerys, PhraseQuerys or other BooleanQuerys. ">BooleanQuery</a>. <a href="#ac1ca86c30835f69c14785d98261be101"></a><br/></td></tr>
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<tr class="memitem:a2a58b600e864bed65cc21815fffa0218 inherit properties_class_lucene_1_1_net_1_1_search_1_1_query"><td class="memItemLeft" align="right" valign="top">virtual float&#160;</td><td class="memItemRight" valign="bottom"><a class="el" href="class_lucene_1_1_net_1_1_search_1_1_query.html#a2a58b600e864bed65cc21815fffa0218">Boost</a><code> [get, set]</code></td></tr>
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<div class="textblock"><p>The <a class="el" href="class_lucene_1_1_net_1_1_search_1_1_boosting_query.html" title="The BoostingQuery class can be used to effectively demote results that match a given query...">BoostingQuery</a> class can be used to effectively demote results that match a given query. Unlike the "NOT" clause, this still selects documents that contain undesirable terms, but reduces their overall score: </p>
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<a class="el" href="class_lucene_1_1_net_1_1_search_1_1_query.html" title="The abstract base class for queries. Instantiable subclasses are: TermQuery MultiTermQuery BooleanQ...">Query</a> balancedQuery = new <a class="el" href="class_lucene_1_1_net_1_1_search_1_1_boosting_query.html" title="The BoostingQuery class can be used to effectively demote results that match a given query...">BoostingQuery</a>(positiveQuery, negativeQuery, 0.01f);
</pre><p> In this scenario the positiveQuery contains the mandatory, desirable criteria which is used to select all matching documents, and the negativeQuery contains the undesirable elements which are simply used to lessen the scores. <a class="el" href="namespace_lucene_1_1_net_1_1_documents.html">Documents</a> that match the negativeQuery have their score multiplied by the supplied "boost" parameter, so this should be less than 1 to achieve a demoting effect</p>
<p>This code was originally made available here: <a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=lucene-user&amp;amp;m=108058407130459&amp;amp;w=2">mailing list</a> and is documented here: <a href="http://wiki.apache.org/lucene-java/CommunityContributions">Documentation</a> </p>
<p>Definition at line <a class="el" href="_boosting_query_8cs_source.html#l00045">45</a> of file <a class="el" href="_boosting_query_8cs_source.html">BoostingQuery.cs</a>.</p>
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<p>Definition at line <a class="el" href="_boosting_query_8cs_source.html#l00051">51</a> of file <a class="el" href="_boosting_query_8cs_source.html">BoostingQuery.cs</a>.</p>
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<p>Definition at line <a class="el" href="_boosting_query_8cs_source.html#l00120">120</a> of file <a class="el" href="_boosting_query_8cs_source.html">BoostingQuery.cs</a>.</p>
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<p>Definition at line <a class="el" href="_boosting_query_8cs_source.html#l00110">110</a> of file <a class="el" href="_boosting_query_8cs_source.html">BoostingQuery.cs</a>.</p>
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<p>Expert: called to re-write queries into primitive queries. For example, a <a class="el" href="class_lucene_1_1_net_1_1_search_1_1_prefix_query.html" title="A Query that matches documents containing terms with a specified prefix. A PrefixQuery is built by Qu...">PrefixQuery</a> will be rewritten into a <a class="el" href="class_lucene_1_1_net_1_1_search_1_1_boolean_query.html" title="A Query that matches documents matching boolean combinations of other queries, e.g. TermQuerys, PhraseQuerys or other BooleanQuerys. ">BooleanQuery</a> that consists of TermQuerys. </p>
<p>Reimplemented from <a class="el" href="class_lucene_1_1_net_1_1_search_1_1_query.html#a0d78f3423d340cf4ddbeb2db9e13d055">Lucene.Net.Search.Query</a>.</p>
<p>Definition at line <a class="el" href="_boosting_query_8cs_source.html#l00060">60</a> of file <a class="el" href="_boosting_query_8cs_source.html">BoostingQuery.cs</a>.</p>
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<p>Definition at line <a class="el" href="_boosting_query_8cs_source.html#l00148">148</a> of file <a class="el" href="_boosting_query_8cs_source.html">BoostingQuery.cs</a>.</p>
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