> hi all, I have been playing
> with Lucene for a while now, but stuck on a perplexing
> issue.
>
> I have an index, with a field "Affiliation", some example
> values are:
>
> - "Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA
> USA",
> - "Institute of Neurobiology, School of Medicine, Stanford
> University, Palo Alto, CA",
> - "School of Medicine, Harvard University, Boston MA",
> - "Brigham & Women's, Harvard University School of
> Medicine, Boston, MA"
> - "Harvard University, Cambridge MA"
>
> and so on... (the bottom-line being the affiliations are
> written in multiple ways with no apparent consistency)
>
> I query the index on the affiliation field using say
> "School of Medicine, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA"
> (with QueryParser) to find all Stanford related documents,
> I get a lot of false +ves, presumably because of the
> presence of School of Medicine etc. etc. (note: I cannot use
> Phrase query because of variability in the way affiliation
> is constructed)
>
> I have tried the following:
>
> 1. Use a SpanNearQuery by splitting the search phrase with
> a whitespace (here I get no results!)
> 2. Tried boosting (using ^) by splitting with the comma and
> boosting the last parts such as "Palo Alto CA" with a much
> higher boost than the initial phrases. Here I still get lots
> of false +ves.
>
> Any suggestions on how to approach this? Is SpanNear the
> way to go? Any other ideas on why I get 0 results?
>
> Thanks in advance for helping a newbie.
If I were you, I would start with default operator as pure AND. (100% clauses
must match) QueryParser.setDefaultOperator();
If this query does not return any documents I would switch to OR as an default
operator and get documents matching 80% of the optional clauses. If not I would
lower the percentage of the optional clauses that should match. Lets say till
50%. This param can be set using :
Query q = QueryParser.parse("School of Medicine, Stanford University, Palo
Alto, CA");
if(q instanceof BooleanQuery)
q(BooleanQuery).setMinimumNumberShouldMatch()
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