Hi,
didn''t try this out but what about doing an OR query and have the
non-fuzzy part of the query boosted?
name:smith^10 OR name:smith~0.4
Jens
On Sun, Jan 20, 2008 at 08:21:55PM -0500, Noah M. Daniels
wrote:> Hi,
>
> I''ve got a question about FuzzyQueries. Say I''m doing a
search for
> people by name, and I want to allow fuzzy results if there aren''t
> enough hits with a regular query. This is easy enough; just redo the
> search with the fuzzy query if original_results.total_hits is less
> than some threshold. However, I would like the exact-match results to
> have a higher score (show up as the first results) than the fuzzy-
> match results. One really clumsy way of doing this is to do the two
> searches and concatenate the results in order into a new set of
> results (I''m using ActsAsFerret, so I''d be doing some
surgery on
> ActsAsFerret::SearchResults that gets pretty fragile with pagination).
>
> Is there an easier way to have a FuzzyQuery return the exact hits
> first? It looks like the score is the same regardless of the fuzziness
> of a specific term match.
>
> thanks!
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