Hi Brian,
You’d need to use a SpanNotQuery - something along these lines (schematically!):
SpanNotQuery(
SpanTermQuery(“privilege”),
SpanNearQuery(
SpanTermQuery(“privilege”),
SpanNearQuery(“received”, “this”, “email” … ),
4
)
)
Alan Woodward
www.flax.co.uk
> On 30 Dec 2015, at 20:46, Brian V Zayas <bza...@jonesday.com> wrote:
>
> Hello-
>
> I'm trying to configure a search that captures a term but excludes search
> results that contain that same term if the term only appears in proximity
> to certain other terms. See the below example. I want to get search
> results for emails that contain the word "privilege". But I don't want to
> get hits if privilege only appears within a certain proximity of a
> specified phrase (such as within the sample confidentiality footer text
> below). Stated differently, a document should be captured in search
> results if it contains the word privilege, independent and regardless of
> whether it appears in the email confidentiality footer--but not if it only
> appears in the footer.
>
> Here is how it would look in dtSearch. I'm just wondering how to
> accomplish the same thing with Lucene.
>
> Footer text:
> “… protected by attorney-client or other privilege. If you received this
> e-mail in error….”
>
> Search:
> ((privilege) not w/4 (“received this e-mail in error”))
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
>
>
> Brian V. Zayas
> Litigation Support Project Manager
> JONES DAY® - One Firm Worldwide℠
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>
>
> ==========
> This e-mail (including any attachments) may contain information that is
> private, confidential, or protected by attorney-client or other privilege.
> If you received this e-mail in error, please delete it from your system
> without copying it and notify sender by reply e-mail, so that our records
> can be corrected.
> ==========
>
>
