A common practice is to search for an exact match, boosted, as well as a wildcard match e.g.
text:dummy^4 text:dummy* http://lucene.apache.org/java/3_3_0/queryparsersyntax.html#Boosting%20a%20Term http://wiki.apache.org/lucene-java/LuceneFAQ#What_is_the_difference_between_field_.28or_document.29_boosting_and_query_boosting.3F -- Ian. On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 8:31 AM, Akos Tajti <akos.ta...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear List, > > I'm running a prefix query, something like this: text:dummy*. The problem: > in the result some non-exact matches get higher scores than the exact ones. > For example the document containing dummythales comes before the document > containing dummy exactly. How can this behavious be changed? > > Thanks in advance, > Ákos Tajti > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org
