I'm a relative newbie at Solr/Lucene so apologies if this question is overly simplistic. I have an index built and functioning as expected, but I am trying to build a query that can sort/score results based on the search terms position in the document, with a document appearing higher in the results list if the term appears earlier in the document. For example, "Red fox in the forest" would be scored over "My shoes are red today and my shirt is also red" if I search for the term "red". It seems to me that the default scoring algorithm is based more on the term frequency than term position, though this may be a simplistic interpretation. Does anyone on the list know if there is a way to achieve my desired results by structuring a query a certain way, or is this more of an indexing issue where I should have set a parameter(s) in my schema to a certain value? Any help is hugely appreciated as I have been puzzling away at this for the past couple of days with no success.
Alternatively, is there a way to query on two fields for a search term with documents being placed higher in the results if the term occurs in field1 over field2? I ask this because one of the fields in my schema (title in this case) is more deemed more important in our scenario than the "text" field (which holds the title plus the contents of the remainder of the document). I tried, for example, title:red text:red but again was stumped on the syntax to place an "importance" variable on field1 over field2. Of course, it may be that what I'm trying to accomplish is simply not doable with the Lucene engine, at which point feel free to point out the error of my ways ;) Regards, --Mark Tovey
