: The question I'm trying to phrase is: Is there a way to make the rank of
: SHOULD term conditional?
:
: In the example, I'm trying to express "If the term MEDICAL is found, the
: term CAT ranks high; if the term ANIMAL is found, the term CAT ranks low."
except that there is an ambiguous si
Erick,
Thanks for taking a moment to address my question. I suspect the
confusion expressed in the answer was from a slight transcription error that
added additional punctuation.
In your reply, the query was expressed using fields (note the use of extra
use of colons that changes the query m
As you say, your "real" queries are more complex, but your
example seems like a simple boost to me joined by an OR clause.
MEDICAL:CAT^10 OR ANIMAL:CAT
which you can construct in a BooleanQuery as two clauses
and "SHOULD".
The sense of this is that a hit must contain "CAT" in either
the MEDICAL
