On Monday 09 January 2006 10:34, Eric Jain wrote: > Lucene seems to prefer matches in shorter documents. Is it possible to > influence the scoring mechanism to have matches in shorter fields score > higher instead?
A query is always in at least one field of a document. > > For example, a query for "europe" should rank: > > 1. title:"Europe" > 2. title:"History of Europe" > 3. title:"Travel in Europe, Middle East and Africa" > 4. subtitle:"Fairy Tales from Europe" Perhaps with this query (assuming the default implicit OR): title:europe subtitle:europe^0.5 body:europe Regards, Paul Elschot --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
