Sorry, I was at Lucene Revolution, and out of circulation for a while.
I agree with your point that it depends (what correct behavior is).
Seems like a lot of Solr/Lucene has that answer...
But as to stop words, the trend lately is to NOT remove them
anyway. The whole stop word issue comes from
Not much luck so far :(
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Hmmm, somehow I missed this days ago
Anyway, the Lucene query parsing process isn't quite Boolean logic.
I encourage you to think in terms of required, optional, and
prohibited.
Both queries are equivalent, to see this try attaching debugQuery=on
to your URL and look at the parsed query in
Hi Erick,
I think answer to this question depends which hat you put on.
If you put search engine hat (or do similar things in, i.e. Google),
the results will be the same as what Lucene does at the moment. And
that's fair enough - getting more results in search engine world is
almost always
Hi,
Let's say we have an index having few documents indexed using
StopAnalyzer.ENGLISH_STOP_WORDS_SET. The user issues two queries:
1) foo:bar
2) baz:there is
Let's assume that the first query yields some results because there
are documents matching that query.
The second query contains two
