I am new to Lucene so I'll admit I am confused by a few things. I'm using an index which was built with the StandardAnalyzer. I have verified this by using an IndexReader to read the docs back out ... Antiques is not Antiq in the index. So according to this note in the Lucene docs I would assume a Query parsed without a stemming analyzer would have matched:
"Note: The analyzer used to create the index will be used on the terms and phrases in the query string. So it is important to choose an analyzer that will not interfere with the terms used in the query string." But it's quite the opposite, only a query parsed with the stemming analyzer is matching my queries. So these are a few confusing issues which to me seem a *bit* beside the point ... perhaps I'm wrong. HOWEVER .. I'm still confused as to why the AND operator isn't matching my "french AND antiques" query regardless of the index. I will look into Luke ... thanks for your replies ... Mark On 9/17/06, Erick Erickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Are you really, really sure that your *analyzer* isn't automatically lower-casing your *query* and turning "french AND antiques" into "french and antiques", then, as Chris says, treating "and" as a stop word? The fact that your parser transforms "antiques" into "antiqu" leads me to suspect that there's a lot more going on in the parser analyzer than you might expect.... And, in case you haven't already found it, are you sure what your index contains. I've found luke (google luke lucene) to be very valuable for these kinds of questions, particularly your issue about stemming etc. Best Erick
