Seriously, why bother. I mean, just make an assumption about average sentence length, say 15, multiple by 3, and search for matches within that many words, say 50. Is there a great reason why that is not good enough?
-- Jack Krupansky From: Mike Ree Sent: Friday, January 04, 2013 1:50 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Search books specifying proximity of terms within n sentences Hi everyone, new to the mailing list and figured this question to be more appropriate for dev than general. Hope I'm right. I sent this earlier but cc'ed someone and afraid it might not have been distributed correctly. So I'm sorry if this is a duplicate. Question: I have an index of books, and I want to allow the user the ability to find terms that are in nearby sentences. IE: "TermA NEAR3 TermB" would find all TermA's that are within 3 sentences of TermB. Have found ways to find TermA within same sentence as TermB using SpanNotQuery and SpanNearQuery and adding sentence boundaries to the index, but I'm not able to find a way to extend this idea out to allow it to cross a limited number of sentence boundaries. Only thing I can think of is to use a dynamic field per a sentence and a new type of query to be able to search across them, but before I do anything I was hoping to get some feedback. Thanks, Mike Ree
