Kalvir, Have you tried giving the name field a boost? E.g. name:(John Smith)^10 alias:(John Smith)
-M On 8/31/07, Kalvir Sandhu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi all. > > I am working on building a lucene index to search names of people. I want > to > be able to score things differently. Here is an example of the behaviour i > need. > > Doc 1 with aliases > name: Bob Jones > alias: John Smith Andrew Jones > > Doc 2 without aliases > name: John Andrew Smith > alias: none > > When i run a search with the lucene query: > name:(John Smith) alias:(John Smith) > > I get Doc 2 as higher scored result than Doc 1. And the score of Doc 2 is > quite low. I need the score to not reflect how many names were assigned to > the document. I have been playing with the DefaultSimilarity to override > certain fields but not getting anywhere. > > I could use a ConstantScoreQuery but i want to be able to perfom Fuzzy > query > options sometimes too. > > Any Ideas? > > Kalv. >
