Yes, that's just a phrase slop, allowing for variable gaps between words. I *believe* the Surround QP that works with Span family of queries does handle what you are looking for.
Otis -- Sematext -- http://sematext.com/ -- Solr - Lucene - Nutch ----- Original Message ---- > From: T. R. Halvorson <t...@midrivers.com> > To: java-user@lucene.apache.org > Sent: Tue, January 19, 2010 9:40:07 AM > Subject: Proximity of More than Single Words? > > For proximity expressions, the query parser documentation says, "use the > tilde, > "~", symbol at the end of a Phrase." It gives the example "jakarta apache"~10 > > Does this mean that proximity can only be operated on single words enquoted > in > quotation marks? To clarify the question by comparision, on some systems, the > w/ > proximity operator lets one search for: > > crude w/4 "west texas" > > or > > "spot prices" w/3 "gulf coast" > > The Lucene documentation seems to imply that such searches cannot be > constructed > in any straightforward way (although there might be a way to get the effect > by > going around Cobb's Hill). Or does the Lucene syntax allow the examples to be > cast as: > > "crude "west texas""~4 > > or > > ""spot prices" "gulf coast""~3 > > If not, is it a fair assessment to say that in Lucene, proximity is limited > to > being a part of phrase searching, and its function is exhausted by allowing a > slop factor in matching phrases. > > Thanks in advance for any help with this. > > T. R. > t...@midrivers.com > http://www.linkedin.com/in/trhalvorson > www.ncodian.com > http://twitter.com/trhalvorson > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
