You could penalize by boosting documents that have the term.
Can you give a concrete example? How dynamic is the "absent words" list?
Erik
On Aug 19, 2013, at 09:26 , Rafael Calsaverini wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> is there a way to penalize a document's score for lacking a particular
> term? It would be quite nice if I could add a negative term to the score,
> which is proportional to the idf of a word that is not present in a given
> field of that document.
>
> Thanks for your time,
>
>
> Rafael Calsaverini
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