hi, it will work because it will also decompound "Rindfleish" into Rind and fleish, with posIncr=0
so if you index Rindfleischüberwachungsgesetz, then query with "Rindfleish", its matching because Rindfleish also gets decompounded into Rind and fleish. On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 8:35 PM, Benjamin Douglas <bbdoug...@basistech.com>wrote: > Hello, > > I've found a number of posts in different places talking about how to > perform decompounding, but I haven't found too many discussing how to use > the results of decompounding. If anyone can answer this question or point me > to an existing discussion it would be very helpful. > > In the description of the org.apache.lucene.analysis.compound package, it > gives the following example: > > Rindfleischüberwachungsgesetz, 0, 29 > Rind, 0, 4, posIncr=0 > fleisch, 4, 11, posIncr=0 > überwachung, 11, 22, posIncr=0 > gesetz, 23, 29, posIncr=0 > > And I see how this allows me to find single components such as "gesetz" or > "Rind". But what if I want to find combinations of components such as > "Rindfleisch" or "überwachungsgesetz"? It seems that the pattern of using > posIncr=0 for all components excludes the possibility of finding sub-strings > that are made up of multiple components. > > Any comments or thoughts would be appreciated. > > Ben Douglas > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org > > -- Robert Muir rcm...@gmail.com
