I'd at use something that lowercases the input rather than just WhitespaceAnalyzer. Remember to use it at index time and query time. Between your queries and typing things in e-mails, case is often a gotcha.
At least carefully check that your casing is identical. Best Erick On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 6:41 PM, Jeff Plater < jpla...@healthmarketscience.com> wrote: > Thanks - I tried it out and it seems to work for "Philadelphid~0.75 PA" but > I can't get it working for "Phil* PA" yet. Perhaps it is an issue with my > Analyzer (I am using WhitespaceAnalyzer)?. Have you used it with wildcard > before? > > -Jeff > > -----Original Message----- > From: AHMET ARSLAN [mailto:iori...@yahoo.com] > Sent: Wednesday, November 11, 2009 5:55 PM > To: java-user@lucene.apache.org > Subject: Re: Edit distance and wildcard searching with PhraseQuery > > What you are looking for is ComplexPhraseQueryParser [1] and implemented in > Lucene 2.9.0. It uses SpanQuery family. > It supports "Phil* PA"~10 as well as "Philadelphid~0.75 PA". > Ranges, OR, fuzzy and wildcard inside proximity (phrases). > > > [1] > http://lucene.apache.org/java/2_9_0/api/contrib-misc/org/apache/lucene/queryParser/complexPhrase/package-summary.html > > [2] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-1486 > > > > I am trying to figure out a way that I can query a Lucene > > index for a > > phrase but have some fuzziness (edit distance and/or > > wildcard) applied > > to the individual terms. An example should help > > explain what I am > > trying to do: > > > > > > > > Index contains: > > > > Philadelphia PA > > > > > > > > Search is done on: > > > > Philadelphid PA > > > > > > > > I want it to result in a hit - basically something like > > "Philadelphid~0.75 PA" (that syntax is not valid but > > explains what I am > > looking for). Similarly, I would like to be able to > > do something like > > "Phil* PA" and get a hit as well. > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org > >
