Hi Chris,
I gather that the standard Solr query parser uses the same syntax for
proximity searches as Lucene, and that Lucene syntax is described at
http://lucene.apache.org/java/docs/queryparsersyntax.html#Proximity%20Searches
This syntax lets me look for terms that are within x words of each
other. Their example is that
"jakarta apache"~10
will find documents where "jakarta" and "apache" occur within 10 words
of one another.
What I would like to do is is find documents where *phrases*, not just
terms, are within x words of each other. I want to be able to say
things like
Find the documents where the phrases "apache jakarta" and "sun
microsystems" occur within ten words
of one another.
[snip]
I'd thought that span queries would allow you to do this type of
thing, but they're not supported (currently) by the standard query
parser.
E.g. check out the SpanNearQuery support in (recent) Lucene releases:
http://lucene.zones.apache.org:8080/hudson/job/Lucene-Nightly/javadoc/org/apache/lucene/search/spans/SpanNearQuery.html
I would recommend re-posting this on the Lucene user list.
-- Ken
--
Ken Krugler
Krugle, Inc.
+1 530-210-6378
"If you can't find it, you can't fix it"
