A recurring problem I have with Lucene results is when a document contains the same word over and over again. If for some reason I have a document containing "badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger", it would appear high on the search results for "badger", even though it's usually a useless document. What I would like to do is ignore repeating words when counting the term frequency. At first, I thought I could achieve this by indexing with a TokenFilter that would skip repeated tokens, but then a search for e.g. "Rochelle Rochelle" would return no results.
What I would like is to index all 8 "badger"s, but have the frequency of "badger" saved as 1. Is that even possible? Digging around in Lucene code, I found term frequency calculations in FreqProxTermsWriterPerField.addTerm() - is that where I need to look? Any help would be appreciated. Israel
