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Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2006 17:02:10 -0400
From: "Daniel Shane" <captaincrunch2002@gmail.com>
To: java-dev@lucene.apache.org
Subject: Tips on building a better BooleanQuery
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Hi!

I'm planning on contributing to Lucene by adding a new kind of query. I don=
t
know how to call it yet, but it would be a mix of BooleanQuery and
ExactPhraseQuery.

I would like to have a Query that is a BooleanQuery, but with a slight touc=
h
where it would boost results if it finds the query terms in a an exact
phrase.

For example, if I have terms A, B and C and I do a simple boolean search : =
A
B C, I would like to have a query that behaves a bit like if I rewrote this
query as such :

+A +B +C "A B" "B C" "A B C"

This would boost results where the exact string "A B C" or any substring
like "A B" or "B C" are found.

Of course I could rewrite all the queries, but it takes way too long to
search which this algorithm. I wanted to know if anyone has any ideas in
what direction I should go, or if its easy or not to implement this idea by
modifying or extending some already existing Query classes.

I'm fairly new to Lucene although I know a bit about search engines, idf,
etc... but I've tried to understand BooleanQuery and ExactPhraseQuery to se=
e
how I could modify them and I'm having a bit of a problem understanding it
all on my own I guess.

Any help or comments would be appreciated, and if it works well I do think
it would be a good addition to the Lucene code base (I think this query
should be used as a default in the QueryParser if it works ok instead of a
simple BooleanQuery).

Thanks in advance for your help,
Daniel Shane

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