Hello, I am pretty new to the Lucene API, and there's something I can't figure out from the docs and from the mailing list archives. I hope somebody can point me into the right direction. Here's my case: for text analysis purposes I am doing PhraseQueries and SpanNearQueries. Using the highlighter, I can extract text snippets with matching words marked.
What I really am looking for is to extract information on each match to the query, if possible including position information in the text. For example, if the text I am searching in is [a b c a d e f a b], and my query is [a b], then I want to know where the words [a b] were matched together in the text due to the use of the PhraseQuery/SpanNearQuery ([a b] will get me two occurrences in the documents text). As far as I can find out, the highlighter is capable of marking the individual words causing the hit, but it can't show me which words together form one 'hit' to the search text. Is there a way to do this with the Lucene API? Any help would be appreciated! Thanks in advance, bye, Jaco. PS this is a follow up for this thread in the Solr user mailing list: http://markmail.org/thread/cokya3rsmzsjocdh
