[Solr-user] Question about dismax 'mm' - give boost to searches by location

Since i didn't receive any response, i think i my question wasn't very clear.
If the phrase has 4 words (last will and testament florida - and will be
removed by stopwordfilter), right now solr matches docs with atleast 3 out
of those 4 words. So whats happening is last will and testament from all
states are returned although user specifically asked for florida will. I
don't want to alter the 'mm' either because its working fine for other
searches. Just for the search terms with a 'location' , i want to be able to
match all words. Any easy way to do this? Someone please?

anuvenk wrote:

: of those 4 words. So whats happening is last will and testament from all
: states are returned although user specifically asked for florida will. I
: don't want to alter the 'mm' either because its working fine for other
: searches. Just for the search terms with a 'location' , i want to be able to
: match all words. Any easy way to do this? Someone please?

Solr doesn't really have any way to know when something is a location or
not ... if you have a specific location field, you can give it a very high
boost value in the qf, and then (in theory) searches that include words
which match on a location will score much higher then results in other
locations. butthe other way to go would be to preprocess the users query
string, detect when words look like the name of a location, and remove
them from the main query and treat them as an "fq" instead.




-Hoss