I am trying to evaluate as to whether Lucene is the right candidate for the problem at hand.
Say I have 3 indexes: Index 1 has street names. Index 2 has business names. Index 3 has area names. All these names can be single words or a combination of words like woodward street or marks and spencers street etc etc. Now the use enters a query saying "mc donalds woodward street kingston precinct". I have to parse this query and come up with the best match possible. The problem is, in the query I do not know which part is the business name or area name or street name. Also the user may give the query in any order for example he may give it as "kingston precinct mc donalds woodward street". There might be spelling mistkaes in the query enterd by the user. Also he might use road for street or lane for street and such things. I know that Lucene is the right candidate for the synonym and spelling mistakes part but am a bit hazy regarding the user query parsing part as to in which index to search what. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks, Srini.
