What type of query best for OR with high score?

2007-01-25 Thread Arturo Perez
Hi all, Which type of query should I use for the following type of thing. I have multiple words/phrases. I want to run a search for them all OR'd together. But I want the documents with the most distinct matches to have the highest score. An example. I want to search for "TOM OR DICK OR HARRY

Re: What type of query best for OR with high score?

2007-01-26 Thread Chris Hostetter
regular Lucene BooleanQueries should work fine for this ... but you may want to customize your Similarity so that the idf and lengthNorms aren't a factor .. you may want to take the tf out of hte picture too (if you care more about matching lots of terms and less about matching one term lots of ti