Only copy string up to certain character symbol?

So I have a title field that is common to look like this: Personal legal forms simplified : the ultimate guide to personal legal forms / Daniel Sitarz. I made a copyField that is of type "title_only". I want to ONLY copy the text "Personal legal forms simplified : the ultimate guide to personal l

Re: Score phrases higher than the records containing the words?

The other ones are still rating higher. I think it's because the other two titles contain "what" 3 times.. the more it says what, the higher it scores. I'm not sure what else can be done. Does anybody else have any ideas? -- View this message in context: http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/Score

Re: Score phrases higher than the records containing the words?

Edit: I filtered my query to author:randall so I could see the score that it's getting from the query. This is the score of the record that contains "what if": "score": 0.004032644 The other two books are getting this score: "score": 0.0069850935 So... the boost is obviously not hitting that reco

Re: Score phrases higher than the records containing the words?

How can I tell if the stop words is resolved? This is what I get when I turn debugging on: http://apaste.info/0Uz When I put: q=title:(what if) OR title:"what if"^10 I get this: "rawquerystring": "title:(what if) OR title:\"what if\"^10", "querystring": "title:(what if

Score phrases higher than the records containing the words?

So I have a few titles like so: 1. When a dog bites fight back : what you need to know, what to do, what not to do / [prepared by the law firm] Slater & Zurz LLP. 2. First things first [book on cd] : [the rules of being a Warner-- what works, what doesn't and what really matters most] / Kurt & Bre