[Xapian-discuss] boost in QueryParser

[Mir Siadaty]

Hello
Searching xapian-discuss for 'boost';
I see the response “Date: 2010-04-04 06:49:08 GMT”;
Which says “There's no syntax for this in the QueryParser currently though”;
Question: is it still (201410) true that QueryParser can not take boost for query terms?

Assuming answer to above Q is yes; then one solution is to repeat the term (ORing) to make it influence the relevance score more.
Q2: how badly above solution deteriorates IR performance?
Q3: would you please suggest alternative solutions?

Mir