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From: "Ghinwa Choueiter" <ghinwa@csail.mit.edu>
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Subject: How to index word-pairs and phrases
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 19:36:21 -0500
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Hi,

I am new to Lucene and have been reading the documentation. I would like =
to use Lucene to query a song database by lyrics. The query could =
potentially contain typos, or even wrong words, word contractions (can't =
versus cannot), etc..

I would like to create an inverted list by word pairs and possibly =
phrases and not just by isolated words. For example:
<w1,w2>   < d1, d10, d27>
<w2,w3>   <d2, d13>
...

OR even
<phrase 1> <d1, d3,...>
<phrase 2> <...>
...

It seems to me that, by default, the index in Lucene stores statistics =
for isolated words. The Lucene documentation refers to the word "Term" =
all the time and seems to imply that "Term" can be a word or a phrase, =
but I can't see how IndexWriter can read a document and index it by word =
pairs.=20

thank you in advance for the answers and my apologies if I did not get =
the terminology quite right.

-Ghinwa

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