I take it from this that you want documents with values #outside# 20-30 to still be found? In that case you can do something like add a clause like:
OR field:[20 TO 30]^10 or similar. Best Erick BTW, is there a reason you decided not to use Solr? In many ways it's easier than straight Lucene.... On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 11:10 AM, Sowmya V.B. <vbsow...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi All > > I have joined the group only today..and began working with lucene only > recently. > > My problem: I want to boost the ranking of certain documents, based on the > values of certain fields. > > For example, if the field has a range of values from 0 to 100 and the user > chooses something like 20 to 30, as an option, along with the query; I want > the documents which satisfy that condition (The field value being between 20 > and 30) to get a boost during ranking. > > Is there a way to do that in Lucene? I could not find an understandable > explanation in the past mails about this. Hence, starting a fresh thread. > > Sowmya. > > -- > Sowmya V.B. > ---------------------------------------------------- > Losing optimism is blasphemy! > http://vbsowmya.wordpress.com > ---------------------------------------------------- > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org
