Hello, It looks like a boost query will accomplish what I am looking for quite nicely.
Mark On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 5:29 PM, Mark Ferguson <mark.a.fergu...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hello, > > I have a set of documents in which I have different classes of fields that > I would like to search separately. For example, I would like to search the > HTML body and title of a webpage using one set of keywords, and the page > author using another set. I cannot use the dismax parser for this problem > because all keywords will search across all the query fields. However, I > like the dismax query parser because it handles matching and scoring very > nicely. > > I read one suggestion on this group which was to make one of the queries a > query filter. So for example, I may use the dismax query parser to search > the body and title of a webpage, then use a filter query for the author. > There are two problems with this approach in regards to what I need: > 1. The filter query does not affect scoring, but I need the scoring to be > influenced by the results of all fields being searched. > 2. A filter query will do a simple AND or OR filter, while I would need > the search to be an OR search with higher scoring for multiple matches > (related to the first problem). > > I think what I need is a dismax parser into which the parsed query will not > just contain all keywords for all fields, but into which you can specify > which fields correspond to which sets of keywords. Has anything like this > been tackled before? If not, can someone help point me in the right > direction for how I would build this myself? Thanks very much for your time. > > Regards, > > Mark Ferguson >
