Lucene search - score higher if word or similar are in a Field

Question

Hi, I need to know when a word or words are inside a field in my index, and have that document swith greater score.

My problem is that if i search for "Sherton Hotel" I get this as greatest results

1. Petit Hotel
2. Crzy cow
3. Simmonss

And i would like this ones to have the greatest results

1. Maui Sheraton Hotel near the moon
2. A fantastic hotel that looks like Sheraton

I want that if the words Im searching or similar are inside, in this case, hotelName field they have a greater score.. besides the lenght of the field text.

I assume that for Lucene, "Seraton Hotel" has more similarity with "Crazy Cow" than with "A fantastic hotel that looks like Sheraton".

Thanks in advance!!

Answer 1

Ok, lets change a little..

I dont know why I cant search with TermQuery. If I do the following I get a nice result

Query query = new FuzzyQuery(new Term("hotelName", hotelNameToSearch), this.getMinSimilarity());

So my Index is working! But when I do this I dont

Term t = new Term("hotelName", hotelNameToSearch);
     Query query = new TermQuery(t);

Im indexing this Documents

Document doc = new Document();
doc.add(new Field("id", hotel.getOID().toString(), Store.YES, Index.NOT_ANALYZED));
doc.add(new Field("hotelName", hotel.getName().toLowerCase(), Field.Store.YES, Field.Index.ANALYZED));
doc.add(new Field("cityCode", cityCode, Field.Store.YES, Field.Index.ANALYZED));

Any help would be fantastic! Thanks!!

Answer 2

TermQuery looks for exact matches, FuzzyQuery does things a little different. Without knowing what hotelNameToSearch and hotel.getName().toLowerCase are I can't really say whats going on, but why aren't you using the built-in queryParser? Just add a tilde (~) with a numeric value to indicate a fuzzy query?