I will try this out. How does 1 and 2 boost the my startswith query? Is it because of the n-gram filter?
On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 1:29 PM, Avlesh Singh <avl...@gmail.com> wrote: > You would need to boost your "startswith" matches artificially for the > desired behavior. > I would do it this way - > > 1. Create a KeywordTokenized field with n-gram filter. > 2. Create a Whitespace tokenized field with n-gram flter. > 3. Search on both the fields, boost matches for #1 over #2. > > Hope this helps. > > Cheers > Avlesh > > On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 10:30 AM, R. Tan <tanrihae...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi, > > How can I get wildcard search (e.g. cha*) to score documents based on the > > position of the keyword in a field? Closer (to the start) means higher > > score. > > > > For example, I have multiple documents with titles containing the word > > "champion". Some of the document titles start with the word "champion" > and > > some our entitled "we are the champions". The ones that starts with the > > keyword needs to rank first or score higher. Is there a way to do this? > I'm > > using this query for auto-suggest term feature where the keyword doesn't > > necessarily need to be the first word. > > > > Rihaed > > >
