Hi Rajiv, If 'm interpreting your problem correctly, I'd suggest you to try using a phraseQuery with an appropriate slop value. Though again it depends on what is it that you exactly are trying to fetch.
-- Anshum Gupta Naukri Labs! http://ai-cafe.blogspot.com The facts expressed here belong to everybody, the opinions to me. The distinction is yours to draw............ On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 9:13 AM, Rajiv2 <rajiv.roo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > To answer your questions, > 1. there are only two words in the document I'm searching -- city and state > abbrev. lowercased and analyzed by whitespaceanalyzer > 2. the only field and default field is text, so the query becomes text: > fleming text:roofing txt:inc. ...etc. > Using query operator AND instead of OR gives me no results which does not > help. > 3. I've been using explain in Luke and the only difference between "fleming > ga" and "marietta ga" is the idf value is higher for "flemming" ... that's > why "fleming ga" has a higher score. > > Basically i'm just trying to get the "marietta ga" doc to score higher. In > the query text the two words are closer together than "fleming" and "ga". > > rajiv > > > > Erick Erickson wrote: > > > > Note a couple of things: > > > > 1> how a doc scores also takes into account how many other words > > are in the field you're querying on. > > 2> Is "text" your default field? Because what you posted is really > > searching text:fleming <default field>:roofing <default > > field>:inc...... > > Not also the implicit OR between each of them. Is this really your > > intent? > > 3> query.explain (as i remember) is your friend to figure out how the > > weights are being calculated. If you haven't got a copy of Luke, I'd > > *strongly* advise getting one and looking at the "explain" tab... > > > > Best > > Erick > > > > On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 8:19 PM, Rajiv2 <rajiv.roo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> > >> Hello, > >> > >> I'm using the default lucene Queryparser on the search text : fleming > >> roofing inc., marietta ga > >> > >> These items are in my index. > >> > >> doc 1: fleming ga > >> doc 2: marietta ga > >> doc 3: marietta il > >> doc 4: marietta ok > >> doc 5: marietta ok > >> doc 6: fleming pa > >> > >> The first match is always "fleming ga" even though "marietta ga" is > >> closer > >> together in the search text. I'm assuming this is because of the > >> "fleming" > >> has a higher idf than marietta. What should I change in the way i'm > >> querying > >> or indexing to make this happen? > >> > >> Also, I don't want to modify the search text by putting quotes around > >> "marietta ga" which forces the query parser to make a phrase query. > >> > >> thanks, > >> Rajiv > >> -- > >> View this message in context: > >> http://www.nabble.com/IDF-scoring-issue-tp21045385p21045385.html > >> Sent from the Lucene - Java Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > >> > >> > >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org > >> For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org > >> > >> > > > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/IDF-scoring-issue-tp21045385p21046615.html > Sent from the Lucene - Java Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org > >
