On Tue, 13 Nov 2007 16:12:26 +0100, Erick Erickson
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Thanks for your help.
I'm certainly not an expert on ranking and scoring, but I've got to
assume that this approach influences scoring.
No doubt. The question is if it matters for this particular use case. For
this particualt field I will ever only have a simple right hand truncated
search. The user cannot use span or phrase queries against this field, not
even explicit AND. I don't think this approach makes much sense when
indexing a whole block of text. I only want to use it for indexing a
simple name which at most consits of a few words. I guess what I want to
do here is comparable to a single column SQL LIKE query, eg SELECT FROM
COMPANY WHERE COMPANY.NAME LIKE 'M%'. Of course this is only the simple
case. There are other queries where I combine the name search with other
fields which are indexed using for example a SnowballAnalyzer.
There are several approaches. There is a thread titled "I just don't
understand wildcards at all" that has a bunch of information about
wildcards, and searching the archive for "wildcards" will turn up a
wealth of information.
Great. I will look into it.
Thanks again.
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