Hi Grant,
Grant Ingersoll-6 wrote: > > You can use the payload functionality (have a look at > BoostingTermQuery and Michael B. excellent ApacheCon talk at > http://people.apache.org/~buschmi/apachecon/). Other option is to put > the synonyms into a separate field and boost that less than the main > field. > > On Dec 27, 2007, at 4:19 PM, Frank Schima wrote: > >> So I have my fancy new stemmed synonym based Lucene index. Let's say >> I have >> the following synonym defined: >> >> radiation -> radiotherapy (and the reverse) >> >> The search results rank all results exactly the same. Is there a way >> to >> Boost the actual search term a little higher than the synonym(s)? > To be clear, if someone searches for "radiation" I want content exactly with "radiation" to rank higher than content with "radiotherapy". But if someone searches for "radiotherapy", I want content with that to rank higher than content with "radiation". Will Payloads do this for me? I would try it but I'm having trouble figuring out how to do the search. For the search, I'm currently using a MultiFieldQueryParser, so like this: SnowballAnalyzer sba = new SnowballAnalyzer("English", StopAnalyzer.ENGLISH_STOP_WORDS); QueryParser qp = new MultiFieldQueryParser( new String[] {"field1", "field2", "field3"}, sba ); try { Query query = qp.parse(strSearchTerms); } catch ( Throwable th) { ... } However, the payload example in the presentation requires a BoostingTermQuery, like this: Query query = new BoostingTermQuery( new Term(“field”, “searchterm”)); Is there a way to make the two work together? Thanks! Frank -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Synonyms-and-Ranking-tp14518753p14527508.html Sent from the Lucene - Java Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]