the concept you are looking for is called a "boost" look for the "setBoost" method in the java docs, or look for the word "boost" in the documetnation of the QueryParser syntax...
http://lucene.apache.org/java/docs/queryparsersyntax.html : Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 18:46:55 -0700 : From: Lou Luqun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : Reply-To: java-user@lucene.apache.org, Lou Luqun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : To: lucene-user@jakarta.apache.org : Subject: how can i give each words in the query a different weight? : : Dear Sir/Madm: : I want to give each words in the query a different weight?but : in the definition of query,it's not support this forms.how can i do : it?can you give me some suggestion? : For example,There is a query "lucene similarity".i want to give : "lucene" a weight of 0.8,and "similiarity" a weight of 0.2.how can i : give the weight to the query? : : --------------------------------------------------------------------- : To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] : For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] : -Hoss --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]