Hi, didn't try this out but what about doing an OR query and have the non-fuzzy part of the query boosted?
name:smith^10 OR name:smith~0.4 Jens On Sun, Jan 20, 2008 at 08:21:55PM -0500, Noah M. Daniels wrote: > Hi, > > I've got a question about FuzzyQueries. Say I'm doing a search for > people by name, and I want to allow fuzzy results if there aren't > enough hits with a regular query. This is easy enough; just redo the > search with the fuzzy query if original_results.total_hits is less > than some threshold. However, I would like the exact-match results to > have a higher score (show up as the first results) than the fuzzy- > match results. One really clumsy way of doing this is to do the two > searches and concatenate the results in order into a new set of > results (I'm using ActsAsFerret, so I'd be doing some surgery on > ActsAsFerret::SearchResults that gets pretty fragile with pagination). > > Is there an easier way to have a FuzzyQuery return the exact hits > first? It looks like the score is the same regardless of the fuzziness > of a specific term match. > > thanks! > _______________________________________________ > Ferret-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ferret-talk > -- Jens Krämer http://www.jkraemer.net/ - Blog http://www.omdb.org/ - The new free film database _______________________________________________ Ferret-talk mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ferret-talk
