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Tim Allison edited comment on LUCENE-7434 at 9/2/16 2:27 PM:
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Thank you for the clarification.

>From [~saar32] on the user list:

bq. Anyway, looking at the issue created I am not sure the description exactly 
matches what I had in mind "Add minNumberShouldMatch parameter to SpanNearQuery"

bq. My understanding is that  SpanNearQuery will allow the maximum slop between 
each of the elements. So we have 10 SpanTermQuery with a slope of 3, it could 
be that the distance between the first and the last occurrence is 30.

-Y, you're right,- that would make a difference.

Wait, no, slop is calculated for the entire match, not between each term.  So 
if you had 10 SpanTermQueries with a slop of 3, the maximum distance would be 
13.

So, y, there is a slight difference between {{slop}} and {{maxSearchWindow}}.

This was the example I had before I read your email. 

"a b c" with {{minNumberShouldMatch=2}} and {{slop=2}} should match this

x a x b x c x

but it wouldn't match

x a x x x c x


Whereas with a {{maxSearchWindow=5}}, there would be a hit on both.


was (Author: [email protected]):
Thank you for the clarification.

>From [~saar32] on the user list:

bq. Anyway, looking at the issue created I am not sure the description exactly 
matches what I had in mind "Add minNumberShouldMatch parameter to SpanNearQuery"

bq. My understanding is that  SpanNearQuery will allow the maximum slop between 
each of the elements. So we have 10 SpanTermQuery with a slope of 3, it could 
be that the distance between the first and the last occurrence is 30.

Y, you're right, that would make a difference.

This was the example I had before I read your email. 

"a b c" with {{minNumberShouldMatch=2}} and {{slop=2}} should match this

x a x b x c x

but it wouldn't match

x a x x x c x

Whereas with a {{maxSearchWindow=5}}, there would be a hit on both.

> Add minNumberShouldMatch parameter to SpanNearQuery
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>
>                 Key: LUCENE-7434
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-7434
>             Project: Lucene - Core
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: core/search
>            Reporter: Tim Allison
>            Priority: Minor
>         Attachments: AllPairsNearSpans20160902.patch
>
>
> On the user list, [~saar32] asked about a new type of SpanQuery that would 
> allow for something like BooleanQuery's minimumNumberShouldMatch
> bq. Given a set of search terms (t1, t2, t3, ti), return all documents where 
> in a sequence of x=10 tokens at least c=3 of the search terms appear within 
> the sequence.
> I _think_ we can modify SpanNearQuery fairly easily to accommodate this.  
> I'll submit a PR in the next few days.



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