I take it from this that you want documents with values #outside# 20-30
to still be found? In that case you can do something like add a clause like:
OR field:[20 TO 30]^10
or similar.
Best
Erick
BTW, is there a reason you decided not to use Solr? In many ways it's
easier than straight Lucene....
On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 11:10 AM, Sowmya V.B. <vbsowmya@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All
>
> I have joined the group only today..and began working with lucene only
> recently.
>
> My problem: I want to boost the ranking of certain documents, based on the
> values of certain fields.
>
> For example, if the field has a range of values from 0 to 100 and the user
> chooses something like 20 to 30, as an option, along with the query; I want
> the documents which satisfy that condition (The field value being between 20
> and 30) to get a boost during ranking.
>
> Is there a way to do that in Lucene? I could not find an understandable
> explanation in the past mails about this. Hence, starting a fresh thread.
>
> Sowmya.
>
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