GAH! I had my head in "make this happen in one field" when I wrote my response, without being explicit. Of course Walter's solution is pretty much the standard way to deal with this.
Best Erick On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 5:38 PM, Walter Underwood <wun...@wunderwood.org> wrote: > It is easy. Create two fields, text_exact and text_stem. Don't use the > stemmer in the first chain, do use the stemmer in the second. Give the > text_exact a bigger weight than text_stem. > > wunder > > On Apr 12, 2012, at 4:34 PM, Erick Erickson wrote: > >> No, I don't think there's an OOB way to make this happen. It's >> a recurring theme, "make exact matches score higher than >> stemmed matches". >> >> Best >> Erick >> >> On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 5:18 AM, Kissue Kissue <kissue...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I have a field in my index called itemDesc which i am applying >>> EnglishMinimalStemFilterFactory to. So if i index a value to this field >>> containing "Edges", the EnglishMinimalStemFilterFactory applies stemming >>> and "Edges" becomes "Edge". Now when i search for "Edges", documents with >>> "Edge" score better than documents with the actual search word - "Edges". >>> Is there a way i can make documents with the actual search word in this >>> case "Edges" score better than document with "Edge"? >>> >>> I am using Solr 3.5. My field definition is shown below: >>> >>> <fieldType name="text_en" class="solr.TextField" positionIncrementGap="100"> >>> <analyzer type="index"> >>> <tokenizer class="solr.StandardTokenizerFactory"/> >>> <filter class="solr.SynonymFilterFactory" >>> synonyms="index_synonyms.txt" ignoreCase="true" expand="false"/> >>> <filter class="solr.StopFilterFactory" >>> ignoreCase="true" >>> words="stopwords_en.txt" >>> enablePositionIncrements="true" >>> <filter class="solr.LowerCaseFilterFactory"/> >>> <filter class="solr.EnglishPossessiveFilterFactory"/> >>> <filter class="solr.EnglishMinimalStemFilterFactory"/> >>> </analyzer> >>> <analyzer type="query"> >>> <tokenizer class="solr.StandardTokenizerFactory"/> >>> <filter class="solr.SynonymFilterFactory" synonyms="synonyms.txt" >>> ignoreCase="true" expand="true"/> >>> <filter class="solr.StopFilterFactory" >>> ignoreCase="true" >>> words="stopwords_en.txt" >>> enablePositionIncrements="true" >>> /> >>> <filter class="solr.LowerCaseFilterFactory"/> >>> <filter class="solr.EnglishPossessiveFilterFactory"/> >>> <filter class="solr.KeywordMarkerFilterFactory" >>> protected="protwords.txt"/> >>> <filter class="solr.EnglishMinimalStemFilterFactory"/> >>> </analyzer> >>> </fieldType> >>> >>> Thanks. > > > > >
