I like Erik's suggestion here as a starting point. I would guess you might find some direction in the Scorer class, but I haven't gone through this in detail.
Conceptually a sliding weight based on proximity sounds correct... -- jeff On Sep 18, 2005, at 3:39 PM, James Huang wrote: > > So the question is, is there a way to overriding score > > calculation at runtime? In the lucene/search package, > > I see interfaces like Scorer, Weight and methods like > > Query.createWeight(). This looks promising. > > There are several ways to adjust scoring, but I really think your > best bet is to create a custom Query subclass (and therefore the > Weight stuff underneath) to accommodate your needs. >
