I think your thought about using the edge ngram as a field and boosting that field in the qf/pf sections of the dismax handler sounds reasonable. Why do you have qualms about it?
On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 12:28 PM, Kiran Jayakumar <kiranjuni...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Is it possible to score documents with a match "early in the text" higher > than "later in the text" ? I want to boost "begin with" matches higher than > the "contains" matches. I can define a copy field and analyze it as edge > n-gram and boost it. I was wondering if there was a better way to do it. > > Thanks
