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Dawid Weiss commented on LUCENE-8776:
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bq. The light-emitting-diode token is repeated a 2nd time (at position 3) so 
that the span/phrase query "light-emitting-diode glows" works correctly?  

This is the way I understood the original example at least?

bq. But then what about the span/phrase query "organic light-emitting-diode 
glows", which ought to match but I think even for your workaround 
(double-indexing light-emitting-diode) will not then work?

I think you're correct.

bq. Yet, Lucene already offers an accurate way to solve all of this, at query 
time, by properly consuming the token graph output after tokenizing a query 
(including positionLength of the tokens) and creating a correct query such that 
all of the above examples would work correctly, without producing two or more 
light-emitting-diode tokens

I never played with such complex graphs (redface). How would this work in 
indexing/ at query time? Can you write up a test case for the above, Mike?

> Start offset going backwards has a legitimate purpose
> -----------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: LUCENE-8776
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-8776
>             Project: Lucene - Core
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: core/search
>    Affects Versions: 7.6
>            Reporter: Ram Venkat
>            Priority: Major
>         Attachments: LUCENE-8776-proof-of-concept.patch
>
>
> Here is the use case where startOffset can go backwards:
> Say there is a line "Organic light-emitting-diode glows", and I want to run 
> span queries and highlight them properly. 
> During index time, light-emitting-diode is split into three words, which 
> allows me to search for 'light', 'emitting' and 'diode' individually. The 
> three words occupy adjacent positions in the index, as 'light' adjacent to 
> 'emitting' and 'light' at a distance of two words from 'diode' need to match 
> this word. So, the order of words after splitting are: Organic, light, 
> emitting, diode, glows. 
> But, I also want to search for 'organic' being adjacent to 
> 'light-emitting-diode' or 'light-emitting-diode' being adjacent to 'glows'. 
> The way I solved this was to also generate 'light-emitting-diode' at two 
> positions: (a) In the same position as 'light' and (b) in the same position 
> as 'glows', like below:
> ||organic||light||emitting||diode||glows||
> | |light-emitting-diode| |light-emitting-diode| |
> |0|1|2|3|4|
> The positions of the two 'light-emitting-diode' are 1 and 3, but the offsets 
> are obviously the same. This works beautifully in Lucene 5.x in both 
> searching and highlighting with span queries. 
> But when I try this in Lucene 7.6, it hits the condition "Offsets must not go 
> backwards" at DefaultIndexingChain:818. This IllegalArgumentException is 
> being thrown without any comments on why this check is needed. As I explained 
> above, startOffset going backwards is perfectly valid, to deal with word 
> splitting and span operations on these specialized use cases. On the other 
> hand, it is not clear what value is added by this check and which highlighter 
> code is affected by offsets going backwards. This same check is done at 
> BaseTokenStreamTestCase:245. 
> I see others talk about how this check found bugs in WordDelimiter etc. but 
> it also prevents legitimate use cases. Can this check be removed?  



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