I wonder if it is possible to configure mlt (more like this) to do the similarity on close numbers ?
For example, a document with the field numberOfParticipant at 10, i would like to have some similar documents with numberOfParticipant between 5 and 15.
Does this option exist ?
FunctionQuery may be your solution http://wiki.apache.org/solr/FunctionQuery . I never used it myself, but this must be reasonably easy to code something like this:
10-|10-X| where |x| is the absolute value of x
Sample values of X and output:
X => Result
8 8
9 9
10 10
11 9
12 8
Then specify a boost for that function. In solr, you may need to code it like sub(10,abs(sub(10,X))).
But then if you actually wanted to categorize results as "less than 5", "5-15", "greater than 15", choose faceting http://wiki.apache.org/solr/SolrFacetingOverview