> > Now, I would like to know exactly what term was found. For example, if a > > result comes back from the query above, how do I know whether John Smith > > was > > found, or both John Smith and his company, or just John Smith > Manufacturing > > was found? > > > In general, this is actually very hard. Lucene does not even keep track > itself > of which terms in a given query matched a given document, but you really > just need to know which terms matched in the final "top hits" you're > showing > to the user, right? What is this information used for / why do you want to > know which term hit?
Well I use results that have a name match as more important than ones with a company match, and ones with both are the most important. I was hoping term boosting would help me mathematically detect these cases (for example, a firstname + company match would have detectably higher score) without having to use a highlighter for what is clearly not its purpose. I also am not using a traditional search display, so every result I find is important and there is no pagination (it's a background search). Is it possible to do this with term boosting? Otherwise my highlighter solution works for the time being, it's just slow. Thanks, Max
