Hi Steven, I have implemented sentence specific proximity search as suggested below. However, unfortunately it still doesn't identify the sentence boundaries for my search.
I am using # as a delimiter between my sentences while indexing the content: ------------ ArrayList<String> sentencesList = sentenceScanner.getAllSentences(); StringBuffer textWithToken = new StringBuffer(); for (String sentence : sentencesList){ textWithToken.append(sentence + " # "); } addFieldToDocument(document, IFIELD_TEXT, textWithToken.toString(), true, true); ------------ * Used StandardAnalyzer to initialize the indexWriter while adding the document This is how I am performing my search: ------------ Query query = null; strQuery = strQuery.replaceAll("\\s+", " "); String[] spanTerms = strQuery.split(" "); SpanQuery[] spanQueries = new SpanQuery[spanTerms.length]; for (int count = 0; count < spanTerms.length; count++) { String spanTerm = spanTerms[count]; spanQueries[count] = new SpanTermQuery(new Term(field, spanTerm)); } if(!withinSentence){ SpanQuery spanQuery = new SpanNearQuery(spanQueries, span, true); query = spanQuery; } else if (withinSentence){ SpanQuery queryInclude = new SpanNearQuery(spanQueries, span, true); SpanQuery queryExclude = new SpanTermQuery(new Term(field, "#")); SpanQuery spanNotQuery = new SpanNotQuery(queryInclude, queryExclude); query = spanNotQuery; } bQuery.add(query, BooleanClause.Occur.MUST); ------------ When I eventually read my query on the console, this is how it looks in both cases: With no sentence boundary +(author:amanda) +spanNear([text:efficiency, text:delta], 10, true) +(year:2009 year:2010) With sentence boundary +(author:amanda) +spanNot(spanNear([text:efficiency, text:delta], 10, true), text:#) +(year:2009 year:2010) My guess is that probably, my index isn't saving the sentence boundary value # as a separate term. Any hints or pointers on where exactly I am mis-implementing would be highly appreciated. Thanks. -- View this message in context: http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/Issue-with-sentence-specific-search-tp1644352p1651512.html Sent from the Lucene - Java Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org