Re: Weighting Issue

2007-08-31 Thread Chris Hostetter
Have you tried giving the name field a boost? E.g. name:(John Smith)^10 alias:(John Smith) i'm also guessing youd be much happier with a sloppy phrase query then with the boolean queries you are currently using.. name:"John Smith"~3^10 alias:"John Smith"~3 -Hoss -

Re: Weighting Issue

2007-08-31 Thread Kalvir Sandhu
Thanks for the reply - i have tried boosting but not like you stated. I have tried to boost the Alias field so that it would score as high as a match on the name field. But it didn't increase enough. like : name:(John Smith) alias:(John Smith)^10 I think it has something to do with the fact that

Re: Weighting Issue

2007-08-31 Thread Michael Stoppelman
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 i

Weighting Issue

2007-08-31 Thread Kalvir Sandhu
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